by Mindy Lighthipe | Mar 7, 2014 | Botanical Art
With the age of digital reproduction, why should you buy original art? Print on demand companies have popped up all over the internet and many with surprisingly high quality prints at affordable prices. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the reproduction from the...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Feb 21, 2014 | Butterfly Art, Costa Rica, Reproduction, Uncategorized
I just got back from my trip to Costa Rica and we had a fabulous time. I never grow tired of visiting the country and am already planning the itinerary for next year. I got to see lots of beautiful butterflies this trip and here is a painting that I did from a...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Jan 8, 2014 | Butterfly Art, Colored Pencil, Gallery, Insect Art, Uncategorized
Buckeye Butterflies are not Blue? A few years ago when I first moved to Florida I visited Edith Smith at Shady Oaks Butterfly Farm. She and her family raise butterflies for a living. I went on her butterfly tour and she showed me all of the different species she...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Jul 18, 2011 | Botanical Art, Butterfly Art, Exhibitions, Insect Art, Paintings
"Harbingers of Spring" ©2010 Mindy Lighthipe This past year I had the wonderful opportunity to enter a juried art exhibit, "Blossoms ll" sponsored by the Susan K Black Foundation. This is the 2nd time that the exhibition has happened. This...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Apr 7, 2011 | Animal Portraits, Bird Art, Butterfly Art, Oracle Cards, Paintings
I have the wonderful opportunity to announce that my Nature’s wisdom Oracle cards from Schiffer Publisher is finally arrived. About a year ago my book, Mother Monarch was released and they offered me the opportunity to write and illustrate a deck of oracle...