Artworks by Omaste Witkowski

The Library · Omaste Witkowski

The Blue Butterfly That Looks Like Stained Glass

Cobalt Jewel Wings is a stylized, perfectly mirrored butterfly with marbled blue panels, pale pink veins and purple-spotted borders on pure white.

Cobalt Jewel Wings, Blue Butterfly by Omaste Witkowski
Cobalt Jewel Wings, Blue Butterfly
Buy this print on Fine Art America

Choose your size, paper, canvas, metal or frame. Printed, shipped and guaranteed by Fine Art America.

Start with the blue. It is a deep, saturated cobalt, and it fills the inner wings of a single butterfly seen from directly above. The wings are open flat, the body sits dead center, and everything around it is clean white.

Then look at what surrounds the blue. Pale pink lines divide it into rounded cells, and the outer borders turn blush pink and beige. That contrast is what I want you to notice first.

Choose Your PrintMade to order by Fine Art America · 30-day money-back guarantee

What the eye finds when it stays a little longer

From across the room, this is a bold blue butterfly that you recognize in a glance. The strict left-right symmetry makes it feel steady and calm, and the white space around it keeps it uncluttered.

Come closer and the blue changes. The cells look mottled and marbled, like cloudy glass or stone, with a soft glow inside each panel. The pale veins branch outward from the darker shading near the body and lead your eye across the wings in a gentle radiating rhythm.

The borders reward a slow look too. They are smooth, with a faint pearly sheen, and scattered with small purple and indigo oval spots. A few olive-green touches sit near the top. The slim teal body and two thin curved antennae finish the figure.

Most butterfly art is naturalistic or soft and muted. This one is graphic, vivid and simplified, but it is still clearly a butterfly.

What you will see in this butterfly

Where this butterfly belongs

The horizontal format and the generous white space suit a wall above a console, sofa, bed or desk. The white ground melts into a white or neutral room, so the blue and pink feel like a deliberate accent rather than a competing pattern.

The mood is light, cheerful and calm. The symmetry gives the eye somewhere steady to rest, and the strong blue keeps the piece lively from a distance.

Choose your print on Fine Art America

Choose Your PrintMade to order by Fine Art America · 30-day money-back guarantee

Questions before you choose

Will the blue look the same on my wall as it does on my screen?

Screens differ, so the blue may look slightly different in person. Fine Art America's 30-day money-back guarantee covers you if the print isn't what you hoped for.

How big can I order it?

The listing page shows the sizes and materials available, and you choose there. I don't claim a maximum size here, so check the options on the listing.

Is this a real species or a painting?

It is a stylized, graphic butterfly and I don't claim it depicts a specific species. The listing medium is Digital Art.

Picture the cobalt wings above your sofa, bed or desk, with the white space around them and the pink veins catching the light. It is a calm, balanced butterfly with a bold blue that you can see from the doorway.

When you're ready, go to the Fine Art America listing and choose the print that fits your wall.

Choose Your PrintMade to order by Fine Art America · 30-day money-back guarantee

Find your own piece with the art adventure · Ask the gallery what fits your wall