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Sea Turtle Oversight Protection www.SeaTurtleOP.org,  commissioned Eileen Seitz to paint this magnificent night scene of a turtle returning to sea.

6″ x 9″ Postcards were printed and placed into the hotel bedrooms along Broward County’s Beaches to guide and ask the guests to close the blinds at night before they leave the room.

STOP is a sea turtle conservation organization that is dedicated to the scientific and educational aspects of the human impacts to sea turtles on Broward County’s beaches, nationally and internationally.

Our primary directive is to humanly rescue the hatchlings from injury and death caused by
disorientation due to artificial illumination of the nesting habitat.
The science is obtained from our collection of data through real time observation and FWC
approved night vision cameras filming the nightly hatch outs and disorientation events of
endangered and threatened sea turtle hatchlings.

This data is compiled, organized, updated and available to the public via our website.
The data pool is the most extensive and accurate disorientation database in the state
of Florida to date operated by a private nonprofit.

Coconut Grove Childrens Mosaic Mural- US Post Office

Commissioner Marc Sarnoff ( and his Chief-of-Staff, Ron Nelson)
enabled and encourage Cyndy and Eileen to proceed with this project.

Major Conributors, Ron Nelson
Juan Carlos Ruiz (who donated the tiles for the mosaic.)

January 2011 and the tiles and thinset, grout have arrived!. Cyndy sits on the mound.

Cyndy, Eileen and Cynthia Shelly sit by the tiles outside of Shake-a-Leg, Miami, holding the blown up patterns made of the childrens original art works.

Eileen with the actual artwork created by the children from Shake-a-Leg, Miami and The Barnyard Center.

Here Cyndy and Eileen began the scoring of mosaic tile which were then made into color boards, by name, color and title. This is what we used to assemble all the elements.

Chris helps Cyndy cut tile Assistants Helen and Claudia cut tile.

Kids from Coconut Grove Elementary Leonard from The Barnyard Center
having a great time painting the patterns.

Sylvia from The Barnyard Center paints with Cyndy Cyndy pulling tiles

Eileen and Mary work on the yellow and blue fish… The original pattern – the fished mosaic.

This is the largest fish, spanning 4 feet

Eileen sits next to the BIG FISH

Helen creates the beautful blue anemone Eileen works on the pink and yellow fish

Here is the blown up pattern Completed fish

Cyndy teaches Melissa at the Net
Emilio and Daehmun make the sun at The Barnyard Center

Nancy is happy with her clouds
Julian and friend make the golden star fish

Brandy, Qeddrick and Drequan work on the grasses

Eileen paints the mangrove, sand and grass.
Shaun our assistant at The Barnyard lays out the life size patterns

Herman works on a Jelly fish Fiona works on the clouds

Cyndy and I are measuring the tree, grass and sand area to make this into 30″ x 30″ panels.

Working with Lindas completed fish Cyndy and I added the beginnings of the water, and tree in this panel. The puzzle pieces are coming to life.

Cyndy and I sit on the layed out artwork, picking and placing where they best fit, according to the original watercolor I painted using the kids artwork as the inspiration.

Stacks of carboard holding the completed elements. Cyndy and I worked from 12:00 noon to 11:00 pm just making it right.

Cyndy laying out a grid for 55 panels. This is how her mind sees things.

Plastic bags for us to use for each particular panel, will hold the broken tiles so we can complete the water around the elements.

Here Cyndy and I pull the broken tile per panel.
This is one of the completed panels.

November 12- Dec 10,2010

Embark Port: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Disembark Port: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

28 DAY CRUISE where I will be painting, traveling, inspired by the following ports of  call..

I will also be teaching ART CLASSES to the guests on the ship as part of the ENRICHMENT classes offer on Holland American Ships.

Ports of Call: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US;  Oranjestad, Aruba;  Enter Panama Canal Cristobal;  Exit Panama Canal Balboa;  Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica;  Huatulco, Mexico;  Acapulco, Mexico;  Cabo San Lucas, Mexico;  San Diego, California, US;  Puerto Vallarta, Mexico;  Puerto Chiapas, Mexico;  Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala;  Fuerte Amador, Panama;  Enter Panama Canal Balboa;  Exit Panama Canal Cristobal;  Cartagena, Colombia

Huatolco Mexico… Found this scene right off the Ship… Sat and worked there for hours.

Heather Bettner  came up with the idea of the www.coconutgrovepeacocktour.com
was Born in Coconut Grove, FL.

“Majestic Peacock” my 1st peacock sponsored by Milam’s Market, Coconut Grove

“Queen Of Coconut Grove“  my 2nd peacock . I was fortunate to have had a second sponsor Pat Sessions and Family for the benefit of the Village Council  inspired my vision for this imagery. He  asked me to paint  Main Hwy,  the historic  playhouse, Charles Street where the first Bahamian villagers settled in the late 1800’s , Greenstreets restaurant, Commodore Plaza down to the Post office and LuLus restaurant on the far right corner. Grovites who live here love Coconut Grove. We live outdoors and bicycle, sail and stroll our neighborhoods.. So putting the local “Peacocks” in town amongst the gardens that grow profusely here  is my way of showing how much many of  love Coconut Grove. 

Backside of  QUEENIE
“PEACOCK PARK the way it used to be

Pat Sessions Family ( my sponsor) - to the Benefit of the Village Council

Erica King -Coconut Grove, Artist  – Golden Celebration Peacock is a collage of the local smiling faces of
people who have made Coconut Grove what it is.

Fred Hunt -Coconut Grove artist on left ,  Meme Ferre red peacock on right

  St. Stephens peacock on the left and  Dan  Bondorffs peacock on the right.

 Dan Bondorrf, Silvia and  Lebos  and Georges  peacocks

 Emilio Sauma also one of the Peacock Artists with me in my handpainted handmade Sexy pink Heliconias dress.

Meme Ferre Artist standing by her peacock.

Little Girl was loving Miss Queenie

 Monty Trainer  of Coconut Grove,
Tom Falco in back  www.coconugrovegrapevine.com