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Gentle watercolor painting of milkweed pods slowly going to seed on an autumn day. Milkweed is the host plant for caterpillars who will turn into monarch butterflies. Once the pods go to seed, the seeds float off on wispy trails of feathery wispy floss.

Haiku
Strange colors appeared
On leaves awaiting winter
I cannot paint them

Gold in the center
Of the dying purple leaves
Nature's own colors

So I picked a leaf
Now pressed between the pages
Hopefully preserved

© L. A. Feldstein 2023

My fascination with patterns stems from my love of numbers. While mathematics has been integral in my working career in finance, my other love is painting. My subject matter is inspired by photographs taken by friends and family. I see a photograph in terms of color, line and geometry. These qualities appeal to my sense of order and design (my fascination with numbers translated into art). There are times when a single photograph and the resulting abstract painting leads to another path -- and another painting -- and sometimes a third or fourth version from the same photo. When I draw something, I start with the shapes and then I add the color. After that, and as I move along, I look for balance of shapes and balance of color and...