Finding Butterflies

This is my local beach where I walk most mornings……I always have my eye out for butterfly pipi-shells….some mornings I can find a hat-full of them and other times I find one or two, like yesterday !...

Making the Butterflies

These are some photos that I took when I first began painting pipi-shells about 8 years ago. The process is a long one but the end result is always worth it. I will upload some more recent photos soon of how the shells look when I first find them and how the painting...