Unfurling

15" x 9" watercolour

Sorry, this painting is in a private collection

Every summer we would collect some caterpillars and keep them in an old pickle jar with Milkweed. We would watch as they ate and ate and then turn into a cocoon. Then we would wait and hope to see them emerge as butterflies. Our kids would marvel at how they would pop out as something completely different. This is a painting of one of our butterflies that was unfurling its new born wings. Nature never ceases to astound me!