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Kimberly Dow · 06-23-2004, 06:05 PM

Thanks Jean! That dragonfly was based on a Yahoo picture - but the ones I have seen here vary. Huge oranges ones in my backyard last week - very bright rusty/orange. Then at the river this weekend I thought I was looking at violet little flowers, but when I got closer I realized they were hundreds of mating dragonflys. I've seen green ones too. I wish I could have caught an orange one - it was very interesting.

Matthew Severson · 07-03-2004, 02:23 PM

Gorgeous! Im a great admirer of your work!

I don't think the Dragonfly is too large. I use to be a huge insect collector when I was younger, and this looks alot like a brown-spotted yellow wing, which, if I remember - is a large species.

Leslie Bohoss · 07-03-2004, 03:11 PM

Sorry, I apologize me, don't know the types so well. (very rare here) Ought to have informed me before! Was my first impression..
Leslie , one which never leaves the town.

Jean Kelly · 07-03-2004, 04:52 PM

Hi Kim, I've never noticed a brown dragonfly here, but last week one flew right up to me, flitted away and I started laughing. I guess I just have to look closer!

Jean

Michele Rushworth · 07-03-2004, 07:55 PM

I think you can make the dragonfly any size or color you like. Do whatever you think works best for the painting.

Kimberly Dow · 07-04-2004, 02:19 AM

Thanks Matthew !

I agree with you Michele - I knew it might be too big, but I was painting from my 'impression' of the one that flew near my face a few days earlier.

Mike made some good suggestions for this one and I made a couple small changes on it, but can't photograph it yet. All my supplies are packed up because we are moving in 2 weeks. I do not know how I am going to get through weeks without painting. But, if I didnt pack up the art stuff first I'd never get packed. The area doesnt appeal to me much, but the house we are moving to comes with an apartment that is large and that will be my studio. It's a ranch in a real desert area so maybe the next portrait will have a scorpion in it or something. I even bought a 'snake bite' kit today in preparation. (shudder).

Mike McCarty · 07-04-2004, 09:29 AM

Kim,

How about a Bob White quail, or a White Tail deer. Maybe even a Roadrunner, a Javalina or a Coyote? I guess an Armadillo would be asking too much.

I do mis that South Texas country, my father and I hunted all around there when I was a boy. Will you still be in the Uvalde area?