Butterflies in Winter

Fredrick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture park is close to Grand Rapids, Michigan and has an enormous greenhouse that holds thousands of plants. What really brings life to it is all the butterflies that fly around and often land within a few feet of you. Most are exotic species and even though I haven't seem most outside of an Audubon book, there is still the wonder and fascination that takes me back to my childhood when my brothers and I would chase them through the neighborhood, hopping fences, and in fields of wildflowers to catch them. The wings in most species are PURE PIGMENT OF COLOR. Let em fly, they're little angels.
"Cadmium Wings" - 5" x 7" - $100 - contact me: bobperrish@earthlink.net

Jay Leno and Lemons

Sometimes the whole day goes by and with all the running, catching up from falling behind, and the rest of the 2-do lists, and its suddenly 10pm. At least the plate is cleared for a full day of painting tomorrow, but I could not let the day end without doing a small painting. I turned to the fridge for someone willing to pose and the lemons were raising their hands. I started painting just as the Tonight show came on and had a thought that lemons, can be comedy fruit. Pucker up Jay!
"Lemon Nights" - 6"x6" $100 Contact the artist, Paypal accepted - bobperrish@earthlink.net

"Buffalo Rangers" - 8"x10"

This is a study I did in Yellowstone. I plan on doing a large painting of Buffalo and am impressed by the massive size and the feeling that they are part of the earth, as if a huge rock formation is covered with fur.

"Attention, K-Mart Shoppers" - 9"x12"

I was painting a scene in North Carolina, outside of the quaint little town of Germanton. you don't have to drive more than a quarter mile, and another rural setting or tobacco barn is calling out to be painted. I was just finishing up a small plein air painting, and turned around to see a lone cow come out of a small barn and I thought, "I could paint that, he's not moving too fast..." when the rest of the family comes out to see whats going on. I decided to take a photo and and paint them later.