An International Art Collaboration with Lizzie Watts

Back in 2010 I did this watercolor of a caterpillar . . . 

. . . then in January 2011 I received an e-mail from Lizzie Watts (also from Leeds–the UK one). She was then a student studying art & design and prepping for her A Levels. One of her class assignments was to create an ‘appreciation piece’ and she had picked my caterpillar picture that she found on this blog.

Here is some of the art she made in poster paint & pastels for her assignment . . .

I love her version. She really captured the spirit of the caterpillar. I feel like the background is the aura of the caterpillar.

She imagined the butterfly based on the caterpillar. I think it is fantastic. It really conveys the essence of looking at butterflies, one of my summer pastimes. 

The good news is Lizzie got into Leeds University! 

Here are some of the pictures from her show . . . I really like everything she did. One of her abstracts looks like early Kandinsky, which I think is the best Kandinsky. The dresses are great and I love the zebras too. 

these look like warhol butterflies come to life.

 

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