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Emberwing, Stained Glass Style Butterfly

A stylized butterfly seen from the side flies toward the right against a clean white background. Its large wing is filled with glowing orange and yellow marbled color and edged with a jagged, flame-like crimson border. A bold black-and-white eye shape sits in the middle of the wing. Thin white lines divide the shapes like leaded glass, and the small body has curled antennae and slender black legs.

A collector wants this piece for its glowing orange-and-yellow marbled wing, which looks like backlit molten glass, framed by a jagged crimson edge that reads like flame. The large black-and-white eye mark gives the eye one place to land. Most butterfly art is soft, realistic or pastel. This one is graphic, hot-colored and cut like leaded glass, set alone on clean white. It appeals on visual attraction alone.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski