All Things Butterfly

17 Friday May 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Beautiful, Birthday gifts, Botany, Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly, Broad-bodied Chaser Libelle, Business Cards, Butterflies, insects, Mindful Drawing Products, Mugs, Mummy card, Note Cards, On my desk..., Paula Kuitenbrouwer

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Clockwise, click to enlarge:

1. Two Butterfly Mugs (with succulent plants), designed by yours truly

2. An engraving of the fossil of a Prodryas persephone (1887)

3. A Ringlet, photo May 2013, The Netherlands

4. Prodryas persephone, an extinct butterfly. It was the first butterfly fossil to be found in North America. It is unusually well preserved.

5. A Ringlet, small business or mummy card by your truly

How does this butterfly fossil affect you? This fossil has amazing detail and clarity. It was collected in the late 1800s by the Mrs. Charlotte Hill, a homesteader turned naturalist, who helped discover many important fossils.

I’m inspired by the contrast of the hard stone (shale deposits of Late Eocene age) and the fragility of the butterfly. The force of raindrops on some rocks make them wear down, and a fragile butterfly can leave an imprint in stone. It tells us Die Milde Macht Ist Gross (Gentle Power Is Great).

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite original drawings, fine art cards, reproductions, and business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header. In case you like to talk about an order or commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

A Pink Moment

12 Sunday May 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Beautiful, Botany, Colours, Dutch Tulips, Flowers, Magnolia, Mindful Observing Colours, Seasons

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Enjoy spring’s pink moments…

Magnolia

Magnolia detail

Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ Blossom;
Magnolia Branches, coloured pencil drawing Paula Kuitenbrouwer;
Magnolia branch, coloured pencil drawing Paula Kuitenbrouwer;
Yellow-Pink tulips.

Are you enjoying pink in your garden or your local park? You love or hate pink? Did you ever had a pink moment and later asked yourself ‘What was I thinking?’

Nature knows how to handle pink well; it mixes it with fresh green, dark brown and orange-red, as you can see studying the above photos and drawings. I think pink needs to grow up and does that well by relating itself to more adult colours like green, brown and red. Right? Or not? I invite you to share your thoughts on pink.

Paula

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite original drawings, fine art cards, reproductions, and business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

A Honeysuckle Waltz

07 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Botany, Honeysuckle, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Music and Art, Paula Kuitenbrouwer

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Flower Art and Music by Rebecca Tripp, Honeysuckle by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Rebecca Tripp is a young musician as well as an artist. Music is her passion. Rebecca composes music that evokes uplifting and peaceful emotions. She has created many enjoyable flower art and music videos. Click on my honeysuckle and you will be directed to her video. To my delight Rebecca has included my honeysuckle in her Honeysuckle Waltz.

This is Rebecca and if you look carefully and creatively, you will notice that Rebecca and my honeysuckle resemble each other: both are elegantly positioned, with having green and tan-orange as their dominating colours. (Little wonder Rebecca has been drawn to composing a honeysuckle waltz).

Enjoy more of Rebecca’s work on Deviantart.

I wish Rebecca success in the world of music and art.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions, and of some drawings smaller business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

Botanical Garden Hoofddijk Utrecht

06 Monday May 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Beautiful Dutch, Beautiful Utrecht, Botanical Gardens Utrecht, Botany, Colouring herbs, Colours, Dutch Golden Age Floral Painters, Dutch Golden Age Floral Paintings, Observing colours

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Photo impression of Fort Hoofddijk’s Botanical Garden, Utrecht. Click to enlarge

Utrecht’s Botanical Garden (Fort Hoofddijk) is such a wonderful place to visit on a fine sunny day. It is amazing how horticulturists have been able to squeeze so many different landscapes in a relative small area. I give you an impression of our short walk (not even a mile) through different biotopes. Clockwise:

Beautiful paths lead you through wetlands, rock gardens, and tiny meadows,

A Pyrus communis, a small peer tree, is such an eye catcher,

Bee hotels in all sizes and shapes with many solitary bees buzzing,

A child-friendly volunteer has understood that where bamboo is, there are pandas,

The main waterfall in the rock garden, flowing down to the wetlands,

Near the tea-house, you can buy some garden and succulent plants,

Flowering Prunus everywhere,

From the higher rock garden you can view the different sections of the garden,

In the small patch of mangroves, we spot a moorhen and a big frog.

Keizerskroon

It is a delight to see a Fritillaria imperialis ‘Crown imperial’ (or Kaiser’s crown) in full bloom. When you see this majestically plant, you understand why Dutch Golden Age floral painters used them as their top flower in their painted floral bouquets. Like Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573-1621) did in his Flowers in a Chinese Vase

To our delight we find an educational patch in the herbal garden. A board informs us that this patch is used for growing plants for manufacturing paints. The board shows how the pigment-rich plants look like, their name, and their colouring use. It goes without saying that I read this board with great interest, not in the least because the colouring properties of some herbs were new to me.

‘Verven met planten’ (‘Painting/Colouring with plants’)

More information on Utrecht’s botanical gardens you find here.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Common Kestrels with Nest (Falco tinnunculus)

02 Thursday May 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Birds, Birds of Prey, Birds of Prey Roofvogels, Common Kestrel: Falco tinnunculus, Composition, Free Drawing, Freehand Drawing, Mindful Drawing, Mindfully Drawing, Ornithology

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Common Kestrels, Falco tinnunculus, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Spring, Birds and Bird Eggs

I have drawn a springbird scene, showing a female common kestrel, who has just landed on her old crow’s nest. She is inspecting her eggs. The male is relaxed and sits close to the nest. The male common kestrel has a blue-grey cap and blue-grey tail, whereas the head cap and tail of the female is brown.

Have you ever seen a common kestrel? You will be amazed how cute they look. It is the combination of their round little heads and their big, dark eyes that makes them look adorable. But are ‘cute’ and ‘adorable’ words we use to describe a bird of prey?

Common kestrels were hunting birds for royal ladies in medieval times. Kestrels were considered to be of little use for serious falconry, and that is because they weren’t thought of as fantastic hunters. Kestrels hunt exclusively for mouse-sized mammals, insects (like dragonflies), beetles or small reptiles.

High court ladies wouldn’t mind when their bird caught a dragonfly, a beetle or a vole. If a bird prefers to chase a dragonfly over a delicious rabbit, or catches a clumsy beetle instead of small, tasty bird, this allow us to describe kestrels as cute, and surely very cute by comparison to birds of prey that hunt for hares, pheasants or even apes.

Paula

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions. An A4 reproduction as well as big and regular sized fine art cards of this Common Kestrel drawing will soon be available. Pre-ordering is possible.

See Purchase in the header for what is available as well as the price list. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

The Dutch Beach: Shells and Sand Patterns

25 Thursday Apr 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Beach, Beach Treasures, Beautiful Dutch, Dutch, Feehand drawing, Free Drawing, Inspiration, Mindfully Drawing, Observing colours, Shells, The Dutch Beach

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1. A variety of beautiful Dutch beach sand and stone patterns.

2. The delight of beach combing is in the small finds, like razor shells, cockles, tellins, oyster shells, and driftwood, that has been turned grey by sea salt and made smooth by months or years of sanding.

3. Exotic shells in front of my drawing of one of them.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Spring, Persephone, and Demeter

19 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Botany, Postcards, On Art, Mindful Drawing, Greeting Cards, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Thank-You Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Seasons, Dutch Tulips, Fine Art Cards, Spring, Garden Inspiration, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Such is life...., Motherhood, Mindfully Drawing

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Paula’s Spring Fine Art Card Sets, click on pictures to enlarge.

Spring has arrived in the Netherlands!

The Greek goddess Persephone, also named Proserpine, is the personification of spring. She is the daughter of Zeus (a.k.a. Jupiter) and Demeter (a.k.a. Ceres).

Persephone sitting on her throne (marble)

During winter she is abducted by Hades, to be queen of Underworld. Every spring she is allowed to return to the surface of the earth. As soon as Persephone leaves the Underworld, spring is inevitable.

This year it took Persephone a long time to escaped from the wintry embrace by Hades, the ancient Greek god of the Underworld. Demeter, her mother, cries of joy, and embraces her daughter. Now they celebrate spring together.

Demeter and Persephone?

Terracotta, two women, Hellenistic, around 100 BC
The figures may represent Demeter and Persephone.

Demeter is a glorious mother goddess again. She blesses our fields and flowers. Our grain will ripen, and our harvest will be abundant. Persephone and Demeter will make our garden and balcony flowers bloom.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine (Persephone), 1874

It is wonderful to welcome Persephone and Demeter back after a long, cold winter. Let’s hope they bless our flowers and crops.

Paula

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Delicate Butterflies

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Beautiful, Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly, Broad-bodied Chaser Libelle, Business Cards, Butterflies, Coloured Pencil, Colours, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dragonfly, Feehand drawing, Garden Inspiration, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, insects, Mindful Drawing Products, Mindfully Drawing, Mother's day, Mummy card, Note Cards, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Postcards, Seasons, Thank-You Cards

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To my delight, I’ve seen the first butterfly of this season.

The first butterflies we are likely to see early in the year are those which hibernate, such as the Peacock, Comma, Red Admiral, and Small Tortoiseshells.

Delicate Butterflies

All of them I’ve drawn on my different butterfly compositions.

Atalanta & Peacock

Atalanta & Peacock

(For more information on this set of fine art cards, click here.)

(A Ringlet)

Have you seen spring butterflies?

Could you find out or look up which one it was?

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Mother’s Day 12th of May

07 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Birds, Botany, Fine Art Cards, Floral Composition, Flowers, Freehand Drawing, Gifts, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, Mindfully Drawing, Mother's day, Motherhood, Mummy card

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MOTHER’S DAY

Mother’s Day is a celebration honouring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. Nowhere it says it is only for human mothers, so let’s have a look at two bird-mothers.

Strandloper

The first second I saw this photo, I thought it was gross because the bird looked distorted. However, a serious deformation as having 4 pair of extra feet is a bit too much to take. Close inspection learns that this Common Ringed Plover is sheltering her chicks from the cold wind that can make their habitat, the beach, rather unpleasant. Mummy Ringed Plover will regularly do this till the chicks have replaced their fluffy down with insulating feathers.

Imagine being a chick Ringed Plover and just walking into the warm, insulating plumage of your big mum and having a chat with your siblings. I bet mummy-bird is enjoying this peaceful moment of having all her chicks near her too.

This peaceful moment is a pause in the paradoxical task that characterizes motherhood; mothers have to keep their offspring close to gear them safely in to adulthood, adulthood that is all about growing away from the parents. Keeping them close in order to let them go.

Here is another mummy-bird, shielding her chicks to keep them safe and warm.

Dove with chicks

I like to point out that I can’t state for sure that above photos are depicting mums with chicks. The Dove and Common Ringed Plover can be fathers. They can be those excellent fathers that care about their youngsters. Mothering isn’t exclusively done by mothers. Therefore, if Mother’s Day is about mothering, caring and loving, we should celebrate Mother’s Day with all who care, love, and share. And this includes childless couples, cooks, nurses, doctors, and all those who take others under their wings for a cuddle, a dinner, a supporting hug, or a bit of warmth.

Now about the gifts that come with Mother’s Day.

I think Mother’s Day is about a hug or a poem. Nothing more is needed. But if gifts are given; flowers express gratitude and love. I have therefore designed a high quality Mother’s Day Gift-set for the 12th of May.

The set of 5 Fine Art Cards contains Fruit and Flowers.

For ordering information, click here.

Happy Mother’s Day to you all.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

An invitation to have a look at my work…..

16 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Bags, Beautiful Dutch, Beetle, Birds, Birthday gifts, Botany, Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly, Broad-bodied Chaser Libelle, Bug, Bugs, Butterflies, Christmas Cards, Crafts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dragonfly, Dutch, Dutch Tulips, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Feathers, Fine Art Cards, Fish, Floral Composition, Flowers, Forest Fruit, Friendship, Fruit, Garden Birds, Gifts, Golden Oriole: Oriolus oriolus, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, Happy Holiday Cards, Holidays, Holly, Home-Decoration, Honeysuckle, Ilex aquifolium, insects, Kingfisher, Kuitenbrouwer-Kuytenbrouwer, Love, May Bugs, Menu Cards, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Mother's day, Motherhood, Mummy card, New Year, Note Cards, Oriolus oriolus or Wielewaal, Owl, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Pine-Cones, Pineapples, Postcards, Production of Fine Art cards, Pumpkin, Reproductions, Seasons, Shop, So Beautifully Dutch, SongThrush, Spring, Stag Beetle, Still Life, Tawny Owl, Thank-You Cards, Thanksgiving, Tote Bag, Tulips, Website Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Winter, Woodcocks, Woodpecker

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Birds:

Owls, Tawny, Strix aluco. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Woodcocks, Scolopax rusticola, Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size), small stickers, Business card, Small Gift Card.
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Lapwings (Peewits), Vanellus vanellus. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
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Tulip (1 half open tulip head), Tulipa gesneriana. Available as Postcard.
Holly, (1 branch), Ilex aquifolium. Available as business card.

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Peacock and Atalanta Butterflies. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction, Business cards, and small stickers.
Ringlet. Available as Business cards.
Swallowtail and a Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction, and mouse pad.

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Koi carp with lotus flower. Available as Fine Art Cards and A-4 Reproduction.
Koi carp with dragonfly. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction.

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Pumpkin with butterflies. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction and Postcards.
Pumpkin with apples, birds and a stag beetle. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction.
Tangerines. Available as Fine Art Cards and postcards.
Apple. Available as Fine Art Cards, Mouse Pad, and Postcards.

Miscellaneous:

Pheasant Feather. Available as Fine Art Cards.
Acorn, Available as Fine Art Cards.
Tote Bags, 100% cotton, with butterflies, an Orange Lily, Woodpeckers, or a Kingfisher. Contact me for prices at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

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All Things Butterfly

A Pink Moment

A Honeysuckle Waltz

Botanical Garden Hoofddijk Utrecht

Common Kestrels with Nest (Falco tinnunculus)

The Dutch Beach: Shells and Sand Patterns

Spring, Persephone, and Demeter

Delicate Butterflies

Mother’s Day 12th of May

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