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Spiders today are sorely underestimated and uncared for. Most people would rather squish them on sight than take a look at them and enjoy their beauty (and environmental benefit). I painted “The Beauty of Writing” to show off the true beauty a spider can possess. This female writing made her home in the bushes of our front yard during the summer of 2006. She was very large, the biggest I had ever seen, but her beauty was unsurpassed. Every day my family would catch moths, grasshoppers, and other small bugs to put in her web. With our care she eventually laid two egg sacks in the nearby ferns. She was so docile that I could take photographs of her just inches from her web! She never tried to flee from us, but instead she waited for us every evening to feed her. We grew so fond of her…but like all insects she died from the first frost. However, her eggs survived. This summer we've seen nine writing spiders in our front yard and many more at the pond behind our house. The spider we came to love was gone, but her legacy lives on. With all of the eggs this group of spiders has laid, we'll be overrun with them next year; we couldn't be happier.
“The Beauty of Writing” 18x24 inch wood panel. Acrylic. © Cara Bevan Time: 14 hours even Comments what a sad but beautiful story. You had yourself a "Charlotte's Web" experience
 I just wish I can get over that "lump of fear" in my mind for these critters... anyway this is a beautiful piece, a great tribute to your little critter friend  -- "Live alone and free like a tree, but in the brotherhood of the forest" -- Written on the Berlin Wall ******** Purveyor of fine gothic goods, now on etsy! [link] Yeah, I really miss her...but she has a lot of little babies and grandbabies to remind us of her. ^_^ This year we've counted over ten, but they're so small we don't have a true number yet.
-- "If ART isn't from the HEART, then is it ART at all?"  a touching story and a beautiful painting to go along with it. I thought this was a photograph at first it is so well done.
-- Signature? I cant sign with a keybord  Not getting enough views? --> Awesome Club [link] Icon by =danji-isthmus THANK YOU!
 -- "If ART isn't from the HEART, then is it ART at all?"  the color of this spider are so beautyfull..X3
-- Trust your friends, Enjoy the moment, Expand the horizons of your world, Live without regrets. THANK YOU!
They are very beautiful spiders to see in person.  -- "If ART isn't from the HEART, then is it ART at all?" yeah..they look cool
-- Trust your friends, Enjoy the moment, Expand the horizons of your world, Live without regrets.  I've always loved spiders (and..pretty much every insect), and I used to cry hysterically when someone would kill one. There was one little guy that had a web in the corner of my room, and when we were overrun by ants, it caught all the flying ones, and when it was done with one, dropped it into a coffee filter I had below it. I loved that guy...
Beautiful painting, by the way. I thought it was a photo!  -- "Was it a Leprechaun? 'No'. Elf? 'No.'" Thanks! What a wonderful story! Too bad they have short lifespans...My mother and sister are arachniphobic, but I love them! I have a gigantic funnel spider outside of the window I paint near. I watch and try to feed him often. They're so cool! I want to paint more spiders so one day I may be able to convince other people of how helpful and beautiful they really are.
-- "If ART isn't from the HEART, then is it ART at all?"  what a wonder full story ^^ makes me think about spider in a new way! beautiful painting keep up the great work ^^
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