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Sunlit Wings, Yellow Butterfly in a Green Border

A bright yellow butterfly with orange-ringed eyespots and an orange-striped body spreads its wings over green leaves. The shapes are drawn with heavy dark outlines on a white background and surrounded by a deep green border. The look is flat and graphic, with soft mottled color inside the outlines.

Someone wants this piece for the way it looks. It is a single bright yellow butterfly drawn with heavy black outlines and scalloped wing edges, set inside a deep green border so it reads like a stained-glass panel or a linocut. Most butterfly art is soft, photographic or pastel. This one is graphic, flat-lit and saturated, so it holds a wall from across the room, and the soft brush-like mottling inside the outlines rewards a closer look.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski