Beautiful Nature Paintings: Sea Turtles to Sunsets

There are so many beautiful nature paintings to do. All of nature cries out to be painted.

Most of my life I have lived close to nature. The birds and bees, flowers and sunsets, plus all the lovely creatures are a pleasure and bring enjoyment.

Some of my favorite things to paint are butterflies and flowers. Then I have to do some of God's other beauties like dragonflies and fish.

One time my husband accidentally caught a sea turtle. He brought him home for me to see what he looked like.

We took him back to the water to let him go, when he saw the water, his flippers started going like crazy. I saw a tear coming out of his eye. I said, "Look he is crying."

We turned him loose and now he is out swimming in his "Bold Freedom". If that doesn't make you want to paint, I don't know what does!

Beautiful Nature Paintings

Doing nature paintings is such a joy. These paintings express that joy and admiration.

The wonders of nature are amazing! Come enjoy with me.

Butterflies are one of the wonders of nature. Who knows how they change from a crawling caterpillar to a free-flying wonder. Only God knows.

They are one of my favorite subjects to paint. Watercolor is the perfect medium for painting these delicate creatures.

It was difficult for me to get all their small features with oils until I switched from hog hair brushes to synthetic brushes with a fine edge.

Now I paint them either way, watercolor or oil. See a variety of butterfly paintings.

It is a joy seeing the Bluebirds taking baths in the birdbath.

The adults even bring their babies to bathe soon after they get out of the nest.

This guy made a good oil painting with all the water splashing. It looked like he was having fun "Cleaning Up". 

Painting is supposed to be fun. Why else would we paint?

It was getting old trying to do nature paintings like a photo. So, I changed it up a bit for the sake of freedom!

My dolphins were always painted with the dolphin's natural grey color. This time I painted them with the fun colors of pink and purple with turquoise water.

These dolphins are enjoying their new found freedom in "Born Free".

After this painting was finished, God showed me it was a prophetic painting.

When we were living in a home with a tin roof. We started getting a "Northern Flicker" that came by every morning at the same time.

He would beat on our tin roof. He was staking out his territory to keep all the other flickers away. We started calling him our alarm clock!

God's gifts are amazing. This nature painting turned out gorgeous done with watercolors.

Giraffes are such amazing animals. They have interested me for years. I have put them in a number of nature paintings over the years.

Here is my latest giraffe painting of a mother giraffe showering "Mother's Love" on her baby.

Leafy Sea-dragons are native on the coral reef of Australia. They are a quiet animal related to the Sea Horse.

They camouflage themselves in leafy appendages and wait for small fish to come by to suck them up. Can you find two "Leafies" in this painting?

There's a close-up painting of a Leafy on the animal painting page.

More Nature Paintings

I like to walk in the mornings when everything is clean and crisp. One time I kept seeing a Downy Woodpecker on the pine trees when I walked by every morning.

Finally, I told my husband, I think it means I am supposed to add him to the paintings of birds. I'm going to paint him. I took some photos to figure out how to paint the pine bark and the Virginia Creeper that was turning red.

So, I did the "Downy on a Pine" with Virginia Creeper climbing up the tree. The red creeper leaves complimented the red on the Downy's head to make a beautiful nature painting.

Pelicans are amazing birds. We got to feel one when we accidentally caught him while we were fishing.

They look large, but they actually don't weigh very much. They are very light weight. When we let him go, he paddled around looking at us, as if to say thank you.

The "Paddlin' Pelican" made one of my favorite bird paintings.

Hummingbirds are fascinating little birds. I would see them visiting the Trumpet Vine blooming on the garden fence.

This Ruby-throat hummer called out to become a nature painting.

It's a pleasure painting these little flying beauties. 

To see more hummers visit the hummingbird painting page.

There is such a variety of birds, from the soaring Condors to the tiny Bee Hummingbird. God outdid himself when he created "The Puffin"!

This bird is amazing with its outstanding colors and patterns on their head especially. What fun it was painting this unusual nature subject.

Waterfalls make beautiful nature paintings.

"Freedom Falls" was fun to paint with all the brilliant fall foliage. Then the dark side of the rocky cliff made a perfect backdrop for the waterfall.

Visit more landscape paintings.

Flamingos have a unique shaped bill made for scooping through the mud to filter out the critters to eat.

This oil painting of the pink “Flamingos Feeding” was a challenge for me.

I painted the upright ones just fine. Then when I got to their reflections, it was confusing. I found myself painting the reflections the same direction as the upright birds.

So, the problem was solved by turning the canvas upside down. Then the painting went smoothly.

Who doesn't love water with all the flora and fauna? This "Lily 'n' Dragonfly" made a perfect nature painting.

The contrast between the dark water and the bright waterlily with the dragonfly are what artists look for to make beautiful paintings.

Flowers are a joy to paint. Visit more flower paintings.

While the weather was cool outside, I was dreaming of going to the beach.

And you know what we all do when we go to the beach - collect "Sea Shells" to take home for memories.

This beautiful nature painting is full of lots of memories.