Sugar Tree and Monarck butterflies

Inspired by my visit to SJC Mission today and the monarch butterflies flying around the gorgeous garden there, I painted this painting in acrylic on a 24x24x 1 1/2 canvas and called it  "The Sugar Tree".

SJC Swallow

The San Juan Capo Swallows usually come once a year around 20th of March.  Some of them stay behind and hang out around the Mission.  Here's one that I saw today enjoying the grapes that grow there.

Here's a quick painting of it today, in 3 minutes.  Acrylic on watercolor paper, makes it permanent.