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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Ringlet. Available as Business cards.
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Civilized Communication

20 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Birthday gifts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Design, Father's day, Fine Art Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Mother's day, Note Cards, Paula Kuitenbrouwer's Art Friends, Postcards, Thank-You Cards

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Bullfinches Fine Art Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

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‘The handwritten note has been around for hundreds of years, and it’s not going to die out just because some of its everyday functions have been taken over by e-mail and voice mail‘, writes Margaret Shepherd. Here is the link to the book.

This small and beautiful book opens with a chapter ‘Good Reasons to Stop Making Excuses‘. You are not too busy, people do still write handwritten notes, and your neglected handwriting can be improved. Reclaim civilized communication with Shepherd’s book and my Fine Art cards. Not only you will be happy, you will keep the art of the handwritten note alive.

Here is my Pheasant Feather card. It was commissioned by a teacher for using as a handwritten note of praise to excellent students.

Pheasant Feather Fine Art Card by Paula Kuitenbrouwer (copyrighted)

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Delicate Butterflies

Mother’s Day 12th of May

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