My latest watercolor painting I've titled "The Inspection of The Colony". Apiculture is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces (including beeswax, propolis, pollen, and royal jelly), to pollinate crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers. A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or "bee yard". Depictions of humans collecting honey from wild bees date to 15,000 years ago. Beekeeping in pottery vessels began about 9,000 years ago in North Africa. Domestication is shown in Egyptian art from around 4,500 years ago. Simple hives and s
Eric Buechel (born July 2, 1958) is an American painter/artist and photographer who has won national recognition as a photorealist painter, through his large-scale portraits. In addition, Buechel often paints cityscapes of Nashville along with portraits of his family and friends. His works are in private collections throughout the world and is represented by the Local Color Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. Buechel lives and works in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee far from Madison Avenue where he once worked as an illustration and art director before moving to central Tennessee. His wife Kathy is often the subject of his work. Portrait of Kathy By Eric Buechel, 40" x 30", oil on canvas Buechel h
