Cut Paper Butterflies

Cut Paper Butterflies  -  Paper Textile Design

Lotus Butterfly  #51  -  Graphic - Paper Design   2.20.12

The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature's course.
-Ryokan

Give Me Wings   #48  -  Watercolor, Cut Paper, Mixed Media Digital  2.17.12

Give Me Wings

Give me wings to soar, give me hope to smile,

give me life to give, on the wings of love, let's live.

- Tanja Nikolic Nobert  2012

Leptir Zelin  -  Paper Design  - Graphic   2.16.12

“Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.”  - You've got mail quotes (Movie)

Pink & Red  -  ink, paper, digital mixed media  -  textile design

Free the butterflies-
I'll be there
to see them soar
upon the air.
Know my spirit
is on the wing,
feel my laughter-
hear me sing.

Forever in your dreams
always in your heart.

-Fran LeMasters

Flutter, Movement #2

Flutter, Wing Movement #2 - Paper on Press Board

“A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly”
-Andre Gide 

(French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)

Vintage Parlor Butterfly Swirls

Vintage Parlor Butterfly Swirls - Textile and Paper Design  © Tanja Nikolic - 2012

“Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into 

beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”  - Drew Barrymore

Orange you a pretty butterfly?

Orange you a pretty butterfly?  -  Textile Art - Fine Art Print  © Tanja Nikoic - 2012

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, 
freedom and a little flower."  ~Hans Christian Andersen"