Here’s my Monarch Butterfly on a teal background scarf design, as a print. Giclee printed semi gloss on paper, square. Available in 5”, 8” & 12”. All standard square frame sizes.
Larger prints 16”, 20”, 24” & 30” square prints with a semi gloss finish on premium Kodak photo paper.
The inspiration: When creating a collection of artworks focusing on American wildlife and nature the Monarch Butterfly must be included. When I moved to the Lower 48 from Alaska I was so thrilled to see them! Each year at my gallery on the coast of Maine we collected a caterpillar on Milkweed and placed it in a large glass hurricane jar, covering it with cheesecloth. We’d watch the process from the brightly striped caterpillar, to the metallic gold dotted chrysalis, to the beautiful rust red, black and white accented butterfly. Then after closing we’d take it to a field with lots of Milkweed and release it! We of course get them in New Mexico as they migrate to and from Mexico. At the Santa Fe Railyard market I do every Sunday there is a vendor who grew up in the nearest village to where they winter and she told me stories of going to see the butterflies as a child walking distance from her home!
