![Orchard Swallowtail Airstream Butterflies](https://phelpsmandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gray-Airstream-Orchard-Butterfly-for-website-1080x632.jpg)
![Orchard Swallowtail Airstream Butterflies](https://phelpsmandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gray-Airstream-Orchard-Butterfly-for-website-1080x632.jpg)
![Life Musing on AI](https://phelpsmandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Desert-Prints-website-1080x675.jpg)
Life Musing on AI
Life has been busy lately with thoughts of the future, teaching and client directed artwork, family and friends, and, of course nature. It seems to be a seesaw motion up and down, back and forth, looking for clues that have brought me to this present point in my life....![Comfort Zone](https://phelpsmandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Peacock-Butterfly-Mandala-website-1-1080x675.jpg)
Comfort Zone
It is my wish that you too find and embrace your path and tell personal stories through your art in whatever form it takes!
![Note to a Student](https://phelpsmandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Comma-Butterfly-Hawkweed-1-small-1080x675.jpg)
Note to a Student
Embrace what you love and learn new skills as your temperament and patience will allow and stop making comparisons because it is often apples to oranges.
![Creating Nature Textures with Coffee Stain](https://phelpsmandala.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Oak-Buckeye-Mandala-Jeni-1080x675.jpg)
Creating Nature Textures with Coffee Stain
When I was in graduate school many years ago I was introduced a coffee stain technique developed by my professor Gerald P Hodge.