New Series - White Magnolia Love

Real Beauty Endures Series

 "Real Beauty Endures Series - White Magnolia Love 3"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155437199/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=shop_home_active

 "Real Beauty Endures Series - White Magnolia Love 2"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155431576/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=listing-shop-header-4

"Real Beauty Endures Series - White Magnolia Love 4"

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New Series - White Magnolia Love

White Magnolia - Real Beauty Endures Series - 3, Nature Art Shabby Chic Decor

Fine Art Photography by Magaly Burton 8x12

How much do you know about this beautiful but very delicate flower?

 Well, Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species.

It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.

A fascinating aspect of Magnolias that is considered to represent an ancestral state

is that the flower bud is enclosed in a bract rather than in sepals;

the perianth parts are undifferentiated and called tepals rather than distinct sepals and petals.

(Tepals are elements of the perianth, or outer part of a flower, which includes the petals or sepals)

Undifferentiated tepals are common in monocotyledons.

In tulips, for example, the first and second whorls both contain structures that look like petals.

These are fused at the base to form one large, showy,

six-parted structure. In lilies the organs in the first whorl are separate from the second,

but all look similar, thus all the showy parts are often called tepals.

All of the above is to me overwhelming evidence of design,

therefore, unmistakably the handy work of a Supreme Designer!

Print is available at 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/155449924/white-magnolia-real-beauty-endures?ref=listing-shop-header-0

Dry Orchid with vintage text blended in with the background.

8x10 available at Dancing Pixel Photography in Etsy.

For more info just follow this link:

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This is the newest member of the family!

MochieAnnie, she is very special, extremely sweet and also

very spunky.  She is missing her rear right leg, but I do not think she knows that, and

I ain't saying!

For more info visit my Etsy Store:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/154746437/photography-art-fine-art-photography-cat?ref=shop_home_active

Detail of the Norwegian Forest Cat Pastel painting.

It is difficult to resist when those eyes are begging to go

outside for a little while at night!

For more info click here:  Norwegian Forest Cat

For more info click here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121095456040

I just finished this painting of my Norwegian Forest cat.

This is Pastel on Canson Pastel Paper.

It was a real pleasure to paint it, and I am pretty happy with the results.

The eyes, the eyes that's what I love the most in my Misu!

But the most difficult thing to render, the mane!!!

Well, I put this original feline portrait up for sale on eBay.

I'm going to miss it when is gone.

This painting is an 8" x 10" on a 9 x 12 Pastel Paper

Please visit my ebay page:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121095456040

Can a single pear remind you of a Flamenco dancer?

Well, I just finished this oil painting and I can help to think of a Flamenco dancer

when I look at it, why? I do not know.

Maybe the colors or the swirls...

in any event you are welcome to leave comments!

by the way this is available at ebay, just follow the link,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=121132997707

I absolutely love my Norwegian Forest Cat.

He is the most gentle, patient and loving cat we have.

We also own a domestic shot hair, CORRECTION, CORRECTION,

we are owned by a domestic short hair. She is into everything, demanding and temperamental.

(Please if you are a male refrain from making smart remark about gender)

So it was a pleasure painting this sort of mixed media portrait of Misu.

Is watercolors finished with pastel for a 3D punch.

SOLD

Original is available on ebay, just follow this link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Watercolor-Pastel-NORWEGIAN-FOREST-Cat-Kitten-Feline-4X6-by-MBurton-/121021171944

Well, this is the finish work. I trimmed to fit 6x4 format. One thing that I think is a shame is how different the color are between real life and what you see in the computer.

SOLD

This painting is available on eBay the colors look very cool on eBay.

Just click this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120998818277

Pastel on mat board "Black Grapes on Glass Bowl" step by step

The truth is that a little fixative goes a long ways in improves the ability of matboard to hold the layer of pastel. You have to be judicious because it will darken and destroy the lighter colors.

Pastel on mat board "Black Grapes on Glass Bowl" step by step

I decided to bring some of the color on the grapes to the background and ties the b\foreground to background.

Pastel on mat board "Black Grapes on Glass Bowl" step by step

I like to start with the background since the color surrounding the subject has such a great influence on the subject color.

Some say beer make you shmart, what do think?

This is also pastel on acid free mat board. Because of the light substrate the colors

are brighter and it was less work.

This is up for grabs on eBay. Just click on the following link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/120989288552