TEXT: Joyce Waddell Bailey: 'beetonia', 2004 Oil Painting, Botanical. The basic composition of Beetonia is an essay on the beautiful designs in the Croton leaf and its sticky counterpart, the honeycomb.  Since the Crotons do not flower, I had to invent aCroton Roseto attract thebee.  By placing the bee at the focal of the flat leaf, I set up ...