BETTY BUTLER Portfolios

I am honored to have three works in the Flow exhibition at the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art. It is currently on display online through December 7, 2024. The jurors were looking for dynamic art capturing movement and energy.

In one of the selected digital collages, ginkgo leaves, with their wavy shape and curvy stem, reflect my love of natural forms. To create this image, I used a technique that involves spreading out the leaves, taking photographs, and silhouetting them in black and white in Photoshop. Then, I overlapped the photos into an exciting composition and added strokes of watercolor-like digital painting.

Above © Betty Butler, Cosmic Ginkgo Leaves, Digital Collage

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Work Displayed in Calm and Chaos Exhibition

08/25/2025

I am honored to be exhibiting in the prestigious Calm or Chaos exhibition of the National Association of Digital Artists at the PIX MUSEUM. My work will be on display through October 15, 2025. The curators were looking for art that was either calm, chaotic, or both. My image, Cosmic Ginkgo Leaves, is hanging on the middle column, bottom row, of the museum's virtual gallery. To create this image, I layered silhouetted photos onto a colorful, yet chaotic, composition of a watercolor-like digital painting.

Artists Explore Color Shifts

05/05/2025

My digital work has been accepted into the highly competitive Color Council (ISCC) Exhibition titled Color Shifts. This prestigious exhibition, which will be held in conjunction with their yearly conference from June 16 – 18, 2025, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, accepted only 54 artists out of 320 applicants. It's a special honor for me, as color is a central feature of my work.

Snow on Colorful Flowers

01/10/2025

Wouldn't it be nice if winter snow fell on pink, orange, mint and purple flowers? Well, I imagined it as such in my new digital print, Early Snow on Flowers . For those of us in the Midwest, winter can be lovely after a fresh blanket of snow but also becomes grey and weary as it drags on.

Dynamic Art Captures Movement and Energy

12/23/2024

I am honored to have three works in the Flow exhibition at the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art. It is currently on display online through December 7, 2024. The jurors were looking for dynamic art capturing movement and energy.

New Pastel Utilizes Yellow and Orange

07/12/2024

This pastel painting, Pear and Apricot Group, features the warm colors of yellow and orange. I added a complementary light purple-blue background to enhance its vibrancy. Unlike the following digital image, which happened in an almost accidental series of occurrences, this paste is more deliberate and traditional. While I love arranging and patterning items in collage, drawing requires close attention to proportion and accurate shapes. It is challenging, yet freeing to switch between the two media.

Prints shown in Washington D.C. Gallery

12/12/2023

I am honored to have two digital collages in the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. It is a gallery that hosts guest exhibitions in photography like this one. It is also home to several contemporary artists.

Dynamic Art Captures Movement and Energy

12/23/2024

I am honored to have three works in the Flow exhibition at the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art. It is currently on display online through December 7, 2024. The jurors were looking for dynamic art capturing movement and energy.

In one of the selected digital collages, ginkgo leaves, with their wavy shape and curvy stem, reflect my love of natural forms. To create this image, I used a technique that involves spreading out the leaves, taking photographs, and silhouetting them in black and white in Photoshop. Then, I overlapped the photos into an exciting composition and added strokes of watercolor-like digital painting.

Above © Betty Butler, Cosmic Ginkgo Leaves, Digital Collage

Lively Floral Pastel Painting

Here one of my summer pastel painting. "Pot of Petunias" was an artistic challenge of addition and subtraction. The pot was brimming with a lively array of flowers, presenting me with the task of selecting only enough to avoid a blurry composition.

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