Have you ever had a project where you just couldn’t get the results that you were looking for? About nine months ago I wanted to design a butterfly collection. I worked on several different designs but I just couldn’t get the results that I was looking for. So, I put the designs away and started working on something else.
Several months later I thought I would give the butterfly collection another try. Again I worked on the designs tweaking a little here and there, but once again it just wasn’t what I was looking for.
Then one day out of the blue I had an idea for using a different technique, but I couldn’t think of a subject matter to use the technique on. Then I thought about the butterfly collection. Once again I pulled out the collection and this time I started to apply the new technique, and there it was. The butterflies were now looking what I was trying to accomplish all those months ago. Now I have the whimsical butterfly collection that I wanted.
If you are looking for and anticipating typical, traditional butterflies, I’m afraid that you are going to be disappointed because these butterflies are in no way typical or traditional.
My original vision of these butterflies was to instead of giving them symmetrical wing designs, I wanted to create an illusion that the wings were feathers. Realizing I had created butterflies that were so non-traditional I quickly decided to call them outer space butterflies and gave each of them names of either a planet or a moon from a planet, thus naming the butterflies, Jupiter, Luna, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto and Venus.
This is the start of this collection and I am sure there will be others added in the future.
