Dariya’s day today!
Today I couldn’t work with a printout as I couldn’t reach the printer, means I had just my laptop screen, which is really difficult for me and I got up very early, as this afternoon we had an invitation, which his giving me a time limit, which I again don’t really like to work with. This both led to not my best mood when I opened the door to the old house, where the atelier is. Maybe this was the difference that for the first time I looked into the corner behind the front door and I found butterflies there, covered in dust. Three of them were sadly already dead, but a fourth one was still alive. When I offered my finger, Nr. 4 took the invitation immediately. Upstairs I fed it with some juice and took it to the sun – it was amazing to watch, how its power and life forces came back and in the end it started to fly!
Beautiful!
Somehow I felt, the other three next to the entrance should find some home too and I took them and cleaned them a s good as possible from the dust…
… so these butterflies were my second inspiration while painting! All colours in the painting are colours I found in the butterflies (if you ask me, why the face is not painted or why the arms are: once more I don’t know). Just using the butterfly colours (by the way, this specific specious is called “kleiner Fuchs” in German, what means “small fox”) were not enough, also the butterflies wanted to be there. Instead of just gluing them, I painted them first and glued the real once on top. As they are so fragile and in any case, I did not want to lose them (even in case they might get damaged).
and here the real ones flew to their final position 🙂
Thank you, Dariya!
<3 Susanne