April 25, 2012 Robert The Beekeeper! Photos of Poppies to Paint!
Here is Beekeeper Robert! He is wearing the latest in beekeeping wear. Bees prefer white clothing. They get more aggressive when someone is wearing black clothing! He is holding a standard smoker on the right. The smoker relaxes the Bees. The frying pan holds old plastic sandwich bags containing the sugar water. No Bees can enter the suit...supposedly.
Here is a our backyard view! The Bees will get a lot of sunlight here. Robert has built a Beekeeping shelf. We will be purchasing a glass fence to protect them from Maine winds and critters...like Daisy who loves honey.
Here is Daisy the Beekeeping assistant. She runs inside of the house when Robert puts on the white beekeeping suit! She hopes to someday sample the honey produced. We told her there will be no honey sampling allowed. Maine Bees need all of their honey to survive a Maine Winter! We are only taking care of the Bees to help the environment.
Here Robert is looking at the combs produced by the Bees. He is looking for uniformity and single egg laying. These are good signs the Queen Bee has been accepted. We weren't able to tell yet.
Here is one of the combs. The orange color is pollen the Bees have collected. The young eat this pollen before they hatch. This is a good sign. The white coating is created from the sugar water provided. Soon the Bees will be able to collect all they need from nature.
There are a lot of healthy bees here! A Beekeeper looks for signs of illness when he looks through the hive. No strange colors on the Bees.
In the center is a larger looking Bee with a flatter rear...this is a Drone. The Drone is a male Bee. The other Bees are female workers. They bring in pollen, water, and nectar. They take care of the Drone Bees and the Queen. If the Queen is sick or gone, the female worker bee will take over the Queen's job. She will try to lay eggs. She will also kill all newly hatching Queens. She will want to remain the psuedo Queen! I hope this doesn't happen. We haven't seen our Queen Bee yet. She must be somewhere in the hive.
Here are a few Poppy field photos for you to paint! (Requested by several painters) Poppies are fun to paint! Feel free to right click the image to save into your computer. You can crop these photos to zoom in one one Poppy to paint. Have fun. Let me know how your paintings turn out!
There was some wind to create the feeling of movement. Hint to painters...when there is wind creating movement, there will be soft edges as compared to hard edges. Also any round edge will be soft to our eye...not like what a photo will produce..hard edges. So if you want to create the feeling of moving Poppies, make sure all your edges are soft!
You can draw out the is scene, put away the photo and have fun using different creative colors not like what you see here! It will be a creative Poppy field.
You can draw many buds understanding their shape. Draw leaves too. Draw different ways a Poppy looks when the wind moves the flower. Then you can put away all photos, draw out your own Poppy field, using your new knowledge of how these things look! This is really a fun relaxing thing to do.
Here are orange Poppies in full sunlight.
Have a great day! I will be framing up sold paintings, shipping, sanding down a 36x48 copper panel, and organizing all my possessions! Daisy and Duke will enjoy watching me run all over our house! I appreciate your comments!
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