I know… it’s a bug…. What a beautiful bug, though!
This particular Monarch butterfly was designed to be a quilt. Not able to endure big sewing projects anymore, the design became a painting.
I used stencil sponges to work the background in Vitralism style, then used brushes for the butterfly’s body.
Butterflies, like birds, are colorful and vibrant. They represent freedom and beauty, movement and grace, air moving under their wings, ups and downs.
These beautiful creatures remind me of being a child running after their color, trying to catch them as precious trophies, trying to build a habitat to keep them alive, close to me, to be able to see them fly and let my mind fly with them.
Butterflies are like floating dreams, songs of the air, and decorations of nature.
