8X10"
Pen and ink
It started with the butterfly...
I was just having fun with pen and ink. The butterfly turned out so nicely that I decided to give it a background. And then the unthinkable happened--a disturbed young man went on a shooting rampage in Virginia. I wasn't planning on doing any painting or drawing to comment on the event, but when I tried to decide on a background for my butterfly, the cemetery kept coming to mind. It just seemed so appropriate. We all know that life will go on after such a terrible tragedy, and nature seems best suited to remind us of that fact. In the ugliness of death, if we take a moment to be still, we may just see something emerge that is beautiful and life-affirming.