Monarch Butterfly Girl

Monarch Butterfly Girl is an original acrylic painting on a 12" x 12" canvas — a portrait of a woman who has become the butterfly, or perhaps always was. She gazes forward with quiet, unblinking intensity, her pale face framed by a warm auburn head wrap that rises to a soft peak at the crown — its surface cross-hatched in black, like the veining of a wing. On either side of her face, two monarch butterfly wings fan outward like living earrings — their deep amber, burnt orange, and gold cells divided by bold black veins, their edges trimmed with a delicate row of white dots. Her dress is the monarch itself — a dramatic fan of deep amber and gold wing panels edged in black, spreading wide across her shoulders and torso like a creature mid-flight, frozen in the most magnificent moment. Her lips are deep red. Her eyes are calm and knowing. Against the pale, textured white background, she burns like a flame. Pure paint, pure monarch, pure transformation. A one-of-a-kind original by Branka, created once and never again.

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