Blue Morpho (Morpho Peleides)
3' x4'
Acrylic on Canvas
$2,500.00
I first experienced the blue morpho in Panama in the early 1970Ős when I had seen hundreds of them at once. The forest was ablaze with a streak of blinding blue light.
In Costa Rica, we have seen many of them, although never in the quantity that I had seen in earlier years. Their color is a brilliant blue and in this painting, I have created a montage of them to stimulate the viewers eye. My goal was to create an intermingling of pattern found in the blues, reds, and blacks on the wings. The rhythm of the pattern keeps the eye flowing over the piece.