Eastern Pondhawk

 

9 x 12 Oil on Canvas

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$100

 

Here's the mini version of the 'Deep in the Lagoon" piece.  I often do a smaller version first to test out the colors and shapes and images.  If I get a really good feeling about it I sometimes make a larger version, but not always.  In this case I did....now back to the dragonfly lesson.

 

After the female lays her eggs, often in a pond, lake, swamp, marsh or river, and they hatch, the little creature is known as a nymph.  It is far from beautiful to look at like the female nymphs portrayed through out history.  In fact you may even run from one if it was a large version!  The body is dull dark brown to black and it has no wings.  The creature lives in the water, crawling on the silty ground, and forages for food such as tad pols.  It also molts often, which is casting off a former version of it's body as it grows.  It's sort of cool the way an insect can do that and we humans probably do as well we just don't leave the skin hanging around for others to investigate! Ours is perhaps more subtle as in emotional or energy bodies molting as we release unnecessary burdens or cares.  Dragonflies typically spend 11 months out of their year long life cycle in the water as a nymph...(not all dragonflies only have a one year cycle some are longer)

 

More on the year of a dragonfly on the next blog.