Life-Cycle

Since the dry-brush session at the WHHE meeting, The Ones I Love have been keen to add entries in the Nature Journals. Here's a quick sample:

Monarch life-cycle by My Girl (12). She identified
each stage with a number and then wrote about the stages on the lined page
beside the mounted dry-brush work.

Monarch life-cycle by Little Man (6). He took My
Girl's advice and used numbers as well, then dictated his narration about the
life-cycle while I acted as scribe.

Monarch chrysalis hanging from a Tropical Milkweed leaf, by My Girl, a few hours
before the butterfly emerged. It had changed from jade green to transparent with
the black and orange markings completely visible. In this painting My Girl is
trying to use some of the shading tips that S gave at the WHHE meeting.

Little Man's chrysalis.