Bromeliad as seen by a Strawberry Dart Frog

Details

Year: 2026
Medium: Watercolor on panel
Size: 12 × 16 in
Status: Framed
Price: $800.00 USD*

Note

Dart frogs are diurnal tetrachromats with cone sensitivities spanning UV, blue, green, and red. Unlike most frogs, they have lost the dual rod system that supports nighttime color vision. Their world is the bright understory, which they read through saturated discrete signals. This painting renders the bromeliad in a frog cone palette weighted toward the spectral extremes: yellows, violets, and a red center marking the chromatic significance of the pooling place. The compressed green-blue middle and the bounded, high-contrast color fields approximate a perceptual world organized around close-range identification rather than atmospheric depth.

Other Paintings in the Series

Bromeliad as seen by a Damselfly

Bromeliad as seen by a Hummingbird

My Promise 

10% of proceeds from every purchase are donated to the World Wildlife Fund to support the protection of endangered species. Thank you for supporting my work and the ecosystems that inspire it.

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