DAILY BUTTERFLY™

The Daily Butterfly  ~  there is a moment in every day

that a butterfly comes my way, to dream, play, stay 

and lift up my day.   - Tanja Nikolic

Deco Series #1

Deco Butterfly Series #1  -  #86  -  Textile Design  -  4.1.12

                                                                                                         

Spring Is Here!

Spring is Here!  Butterfly #85  -  Digital Illustration Graphic  -  3.24.12

SPRING is here! Life abounds. Hurrah!

 Holy Cow Butterfly!

Holy Cow!  Butterfly #54  -  Graphic Illustration  -  2.23.12

The Cow

    The friendly cow all red and white,
    I love with all my heart:
    She gives me cream with all her might,
    To eat with apple-tart.

    She wanders lowing here and there,
    And yet she cannot stray,
    All in the pleasant open air,
    The pleasant light of day;

    And blown by all the winds that pass
    And wet with all the showers,
    She walks among the meadow grass
    And eats the meadow flowers.

- by Robert Louis Stephenson

In honor of my friend Anne Woerner, Happy Birthday!

Happy Home

Happy Home Butterfly  #53  -  Sketch, Digital Mixed Media Illustration  -  2.22.12

When I Think Of Home

When I think of 'home' I think of cherry pies
When I think of 'home' I think of mulberry trees
When I think of 'home' I think of butterflies
When I think of 'home' I think of bumble bees

When I think of 'home' I think of hummingbirds
When I think of 'home' I think of sun brewed tea
When I think of 'home' I think of morning walks
When I think of 'home' I think of Grandma and me

When I think of 'home' I think of hidden trails
When I think of 'home' I think of lullabies
When I think of 'home' I think of signs of spring
When I think of 'home' I think of pumpkin pies

When I think of 'home' I think of bedtime stories
When I think of 'home' I think of I think of honeysuckle
When I think of 'home' I think of roses blooming
When I think of 'home' I can't help but chuckle

Because when I think of 'home' I think Heaven
When I think of 'home' I think of all thats kind
When I think of 'home' I think of dancing
When I think of 'home' Grandma comes to mind


-Catlin L. Crawford

Tree of Life Butterfly (Klimt)

Tree of Life Butterfly  #52  -  Gustav Klimt Patterns  -  Mixed Media  -  2.21.12

  Art is a line around your thoughts.    - Gustav Klimt 

In honor of Andrea Brome, Happy Birthday!

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.   - Garson

Lotus Butterfly

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

Sea of Flight

Sea of Flight  #50  -  Fabric Textile Design (Pucci Palette)  2.19.12

Far out at sea, --the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, 

We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, 

Far out at sea.    - Richard Hengist Horne

Familija Leptir #49  -  Ink Doodles, Mixed Media   2.18.12

The Butterfly Family

They dance and cling to air, swirling in space, 

fluttering in secret, living in joy. 

Together, they fly as one and are never alone. 

- Tanja Nikolic   2012

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

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  -   #47  -  Paper Graphics/Textile    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)

 there's a flutter on my nose...

there's a flutter on my nose  -  Graphic Illustration  -  2.15.12

 As the Lord had finished creating the earth, something was missing so he 

chose pieces from all the flowers, threw them into the sky and blew life into them 

and the butterflies were born.    -from an Easter service

Happy Valentine's Day!

hearts a flutter  -  silver, acrylic on canvas   2-14-12

The Butterfly

    As love falls down from the sky,
It lands on the wings of a butterfly.
The butterfly sings it's songs and rhymes,
And flies through the air, No concept of time.
It is the messenger of patience and change,
From flower to flower, it's odd and it's strange.
The butterfly can transform it's world.
And give way to new beginnings, unfurled,
It is the keeper of transformation,
And flies on faith and imagination.
The butterfly has no fear of change,
It bravely escapes it's homemade cage.
To change, it knows is necessary,
For all the burdens we need not carry.
The butterfly soars, and merrily sings,
For, without change, it could never grow wings.


-Heather Reneé Adamkiewicz

Graphic B. - Pucci Inspired - 2-13-12

LOOK THROUGH EYES OF HOPE AND SEE
A BUTTERFLY INSIDE THE CATERPILLAR,
HOPE KNOWS THAT BEAUTY IS WAITING TO BE
BORN IN THE UNLIKELIEST PLACES ...

Thea Miller Ryan

Red & Black for Sophia   2-11-12   Sketch, Photocopy on Red

Happy Birthday 11th Birthday Sophia!

pink & red  -  ink, paper, mixed media digital - 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

Tribute to Tiffany Diamond Butterfly Collection - Digital Mixed Media

Clasp my love around your neck, Wear my heart on your finger.
My soul will be your pendant: I live to adorn you - You're the precious one.

~Grey Livingston, "Genuine Adoration"

B-Sketch 2-8-12    Marker on Ruled Paper

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)

Flutter, Wing Movement #1 - Oil, Acrylic and Wood on Press Board

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised
a butterfly in the winter woods” - Edith Wharton

Yellow Country Butterflies- Textile and Paper Bamboo Print

 “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

-Richard Bach

Vintage Parlor Butterfly Swirls - Textile and Art Print on Metallic Paper

“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! - Textile and Fine Art Print

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine,

freedom and a little flower."  ~Hans Christian Andersen"

Individual Butterfly Art for Orange You A Pretty Butterfly!

Girlfriend's Butterflies

Girlfriend's Butterflies - one - Art Print on Metal/Bamboo

“Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes”

Virgin Butterfly - Flight - Graphic Print On Canvas

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.  ~Carl Sagan 

Ava's Art Deco Butterfly - Enamel on Canvas

I only ask to be free.  The butterflies are free.  ~Charles Dickens

Noah's Butterfly - Oil on Canvas

Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring.  ~Author Unknown

Study - Watercolor

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August 

Over the grass in the West garden; 

They hurt me.  I grow older.
~Li Po

Leptir - Silk Screen Print

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.  

~Rabindranath Tagore

Wing Study On Canvas

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, 

or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.  ~Chuang Tzu

Transitions - oil and mixed media

And what's a butterfly? At best,
He's but a caterpillar, At rest.
~John Grey

Red and Black - paper pattern design

Purple and Red - paper pattern design

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye, Not a poor fool understands.
~William Butler Yeats, (Another Song of a Fool)