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Bouquet of garden flowers with butterfly, cardinals, nest and eggs
A bust is a vase for the bouquet with an exotic insect and a frog to the right.  They rest on a marble mantle.
Two cardinals, their nest and eggs and a butterfly reside in the bouquet.
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The Insect Queen Painting

Susan McLaughlin

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 24 W x 36 H x 2 D in

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About The Artwork

INSPIRATION for this painting is the obvious beauty and universal appeal of a bouquet of garden flowers. I placed them in an antique stone bust for the contrast of the beauty of the hard, crumbling stone and the soft fragile, fragrant flowers. I felt this juxtaposition would provide the painting with an energetic push/pull. In addition I tried to capture the graceful, balletic movement and intriguing other-worldly design of the insects that live among them, I decided to include the insects while gardening in a bee-inhabited garden. The bees gave me the idea when they would land on me and deposit their overload of pollen on my overalls forming lovely golden patterns. I hope VIEWERS WILL FEEL enchanted with all the beautiful, disparate images vying for their attention in this harmonious setting. I hope they will be delighted and have a giggle when they discover the fat green frog who jumped into the fish bowl. or the nesting cardinals. Perhaps they will agree with me that there should be harmony between nature and humankind. I hope they stop and buy the painting, and then, I hope it reminds them every day to stop and smell the roses. SHOPTALK: It was my pleasure to pull out my smallest brushes (size 00 and 0 ) to render the multiple details of the flowers and insects. I applied acrylic paint on fine grain stretched linen because linen is so conducive to drawing intricate images. I slowed down the drying time with a retardant so I could work traditionally wet on wet when drawing and shading and utilized it’s slow drying time when applying layers of glazes. The image continues on to the edges of the canvas, so it can be hung without a frame if desired.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 2 D in

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As a painter, I am an explorer, uncovering, recording and rearranging the beauty of the natural world, as well as the beauty of human beings. I select and distill the very essence of my subject, harmony between nature and humanity, sometimes combining the two. This symbiosis makes the finished work even more beautiful than either of its constituents alone. When you first visit my fantasy world, you will notice a lot of extraordinary things going on in my paintings. For instance, I might substitute a bird for a hat, or a butterfly for a bowtie. These unusual substitutions function as symbols and provide subtle clues and playful suggestions about my work. The shapes of birds and hats, or butterflies and bowties, are so similar that viewers never even question the replacements. I pick the substitutes because they fit graphically and visually. But it is more than that. We as humans fit with nature. We fit together so well, in fact, that I am able to paint a natural object–a butterfly–in place of the bowtie–and viewers can see this as truth. My world will refresh you with its vibrant colors, textures, and interchangeable shapes as you immerse yourself in the integration of nature and humanity. You will be at peace with yourself and at one with nature. You will experience nature in a totally new way and see beauty in places where you never before thought to look.

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