by Mindy Lighthipe | Art For Conservation, Bird Art, How-To, Workshops
From Colombia to the Studio: A New 4-Week Hummingbird Art Class This past November, I was incredibly fortunate to travel to Colombia to explore a potential new destination for future traveling art workshops. I went with curiosity—and came home completely inspired....
by Mindy Lighthipe | Butterfly Art, Costa Rica, Insect Art, Scientific Illustration, Uncategorized, Workshops
An Electric Flash of Blue: Drawing the Magic of the Blue Morpho I still remember the very first time I saw a Blue Morpho butterfly in the Costa Rican rainforest. One moment the forest was deep green and shadowed—then zap!—an electric flash of blue zipped past me like...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Insect Art, Workshops
From the Rainforest to the Easel: Drawing the Purple Grasshopper” The natural world is full of tiny treasures, and few are as dazzling as the Titanacris albipes, the Purple Grasshopper from Peru. With iridescent violet wings and elegant anatomy, this species embodies...
