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Project LBB: Drawing workflow

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Butterfly Psyche

The somewhat disheveled and quite deceased beetle on the left is the original collected type specimen of Hyperaspis troglodytes, well over 100 years old. I obtained the image from the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) entomology type database; the … Continue reading →

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Project LBB: The drawing begins!

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Butterfly Psyche

The lovely lady to the left is Cycloneda sanguinea, the Spotless Lady Beetle, the first drawing I tackled for Project LBB. (Actually the lovely lady is a male – notice the white vertical line at the center of the black-and-white … Continue reading →

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Project LBB: What is it?

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Butterfly Psyche

I’ve long coveted a field guide to Eastern North American lady beetles – something akin to John Acorn’s “Ladybugs of Alberta,” the only lady beetle field guide I know of. His book is fantastic, one of my favorites, but it … Continue reading →

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Artwork: Green Jay in Prismacolor pencil

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Butterfly Psyche

Once we spotted them, there was no getting rid of them…They were so strikingly beautiful (in plumage if not voice) that I went straight back to our cabin and started drawing. Continue reading →

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Artwork: Bicknell’s Thrush in Prismacolor pencil

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Butterfly Psyche

Drawing in Prismacolor pencils, in honor of my 194th life list bird. I didn’t think the drawing was finished when I walked out of the room to get a gray pencil, but when I returned, the drawing just worked in … Continue reading →

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