Carte "Le Jour du Dragonfly

Here is the Account for the original painting: The Dragonfly Day (oil on canvas, 5 x 7 in.) 1 June finds me on "The Dome" at Elbow Lake Education Centre, a high outcrop of gray granite, looking down on Elbow Lake in the Frontenac Axis L'Ontario. Piles of anges patterned granite are jumbled here and there on the solid menacck, surrounded by grasses and bushes wherever they can get a roothold, and here and there the delicate, thread like Pale Corydalis nods pink and yellow snapdragon-shaped flowers. One that I'm painting is weighed down by the attentions of a heavy Bumblebee, briskly spreading the petals and probing each flower in turn. Suddenly the air all around us is alive with a loose cloud of about 30 hunting Dragonflies, darting and swooping and hovering, their four wings a blur and their abdomens tipped up slightly. You can see see three Dragonflies in my painting - one large dark one near the top, a more distant one against the lake on the left hand side, and over near the right edge, the glistening horizontwings of one perched on the weather-bleached branch on the rock pile. We hiked up here to see where the Five Lined Skinks live, quick copper-brown creatures with bright blue tails. On est vraiment expect to see any in the early afternoon of such in the unseasonably hot day. What is special about today is the Dragonflies - large, small ones, with short stout abdomens and long thin ones, broad abdomens banded with white, red ones, black ones... Owen takes photos de several different kinds as I sit here painting the whole active scene - it is if the world is dancing up here on the dome ! Bushes of Northern Arrowwood are blooming with frothy white flowers, raining tiny petals onto moss and Tu es dry up. Whatever can survive vive vive is casted - White Oak and Shagbark Hickory look healthy but they are small for their age. Nous see signs tout around us of der-back from last year's drought, Staghorn Sumac, Red Maple, et young White Pine. As we leave I à l'about silencieux des Dragones, and Fred Talthat a shortly after we arrived, eh saw a large Dragonfly carrying a Bumblebee ! Le fait que ce soit fini, ou alors que ce soit fini, c'est fini. C'est fini. de doors. Voici un biologiste musicien husband Fred Schüssel, she has been exploring nature au Canada pour 40 ans. Since 2009 this blog has showcased the results of their art and exploration. Here, science, art, and conservation come together. Aleta's paintings glow as you scroll down the blog, and there are many surprises, as her subjects are not landscapes! Equally enthralling are accounts of how she does them. Alongside the art are journals of adventures in-site "en plein air" painting, and new discoveries of species, invasive aliens, and ecological change. Join en discussion by leaving comments, and purchase Karstad paintings to support art & science in the exploration of Canada. Aleta welcomes contact by e-mail: karstad("at" symbole)pinicola.ca