Little bug

365 Days in Colour … pink. Pink azalea found by the foot path in a neighbourhood garden complete with little bug (which I didn’t notice until uploaded}.

365 Days in Colour … pink. Pink azalea found by the foot path in a neighbourhood garden complete with little bug (which I didn’t notice until uploaded}.

Ongoing personal project, November 2011. The matter-of-fact way in which Kafka writes about such a surreal situation inspired this piece, where a traditional style portrait has been replaced with a beetle’s head. Biro and collage on cartridge paper. Work in Progress.

on her third birthday -we took her to "the beach restaurant" where they have a sand playground and great food (not a combo you’d expect.)

The best of my monochrome drypoint etchings today. This is oil-based ink on Kent paper. We were supposed to do a final print on Fabriano but the block degraded long before that, even after re-cutting. I reckon rhenalon plates are good for a max of 4 prints before they are …

Oulema melanopus. I got quite excited with this find today. When I put the photos on the laptop I also noticed I had again missed yet another green mite!

Just for fun … this female pondhawk landed on my flipflop as I was walking in the yard this summer. Pondhawks will often follow me around like cattle egrets do – hoping I’ll stir up a bug they can pounce on. These small dragonflies are fierce predators. I’ve still got …

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