As an artist, you find many ways to cheat and make more with less. I have discovered that with a cheap photo-shopping program, I can snip elements out of existing artworks and combine them together into something new. My fingers no longer have the dexterity needed for intricately detailed backgrounds, but I find that photo-backgrounds fit my plan better anyway. Here I took Valerie Clarke and pasted her on a photo of hollyhocks created by Belinda Buchanan. I then pasted in the Swallowtail butterfly from a recent Paffooney. Now, I know that if your mind doesn’t accept the butterfly as in the air and closer to the viewer than Valerie, then I have created a picture of pre-historic monster-bug. Mothra does Iowa. Oh well, I think it is pretty anyway… and it leads to further noodling with old art.
Catch a Falling Star 
It’s your eye to see and create to your happiness.