by Mindy Lighthipe | Feb 27, 2012 | 52/52 Challenge, Bird Art, Costa Rica, Uncategorized, Watercolor Tips
52/52 Painting Challenge – Painting #8 The Blue Crowned Mot-Mot For this painting challenge I combined watercolor with egg yolk. I took a class in egg tempera from American-born Suzanne Scherer and Russian-born Pavel Ouporov in 2004 at the New York Botanical...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Feb 1, 2012 | Animal Portraits, Bird Art, Costa Rica, Uncategorized
The Blue-Crowned MotMot Motmots are a family of New World tropical birds related to kingfishers. They can be found nesting in burrows which they dig themselves into cliffs Most motmots are medium-sized (robin size or larger).They are usually spotted sitting in trees...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Nov 1, 2011 | Bird Art, Uncategorized
Sandhill Cranes and a few Whooping Cranes too!! It is about this time of year that the Sandhill Cranes descend upon Gainesville Florida to spend the winter. Usually 1,000 to 2,000 of these large birds winter over each year. Typically, they spend the day foraging for...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Sep 10, 2011 | Animal Rescue, Bird Art, Costa Rica, Drawing Tips, Native Species, Uncategorized, Videos, Workshops
Great Green Macaw- Colored Pencil ©2001 MLighthipe For over 20 years I have been going to Costa Rica. I marvel at the diversity and the amazing array of shapes, colors, textures and sounds of the rainforest. One of the most thrilling things I have ever seen is a...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Apr 27, 2011 | Animal Portraits, Bird Art, Oracle Cards
The Bat is BENEFICIAL! Nature's Wisdom Oracle Card # 2 Today I would like to introduce you to the bat. I did this painting years ago in gouache while I was leading an ART TOUR to Costa Rica. Bats are fascinating creatures and I thought that they had...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Apr 20, 2011 | Animal Portraits, Bird Art, Butterfly Art, Insect Art, Oracle Cards
The next card I will share from my Nature’s Wisdom Oracle Deck is the Scarab Beetle. My “bug” friend Adam Fleishman of Comet Moth Sight & Sound inquired about my deck of cards and wanted to know more about the scarab. So this is for you Adam! ...
