Orange Sulphur Butterfly — Giclée on Paper Tote Bag This is the unenhanced version

This is the unenhanced version of the subject — the original watercolour study without the luminous pastel background of the Enhanced edition

The painting is both beautiful and

sketching the same wing positions over and over until the geometry of the dive became second nature

from floatplanes

the clearing sky above

Orange Sulphur Butterfly — Giclée on Paper Tote Bag This is the unenhanced versionAn Orange Sulphur Butterfly visits a red clover flower wings open, the orange yellow coloration with black borders precise, a second clover stem curving below. This 1969 watercolour is a paired botanical and entomological study: the butterfly and its host plant rendered with equal attention, the cream coloured paper ground giving the whole composition a warm, herbarium page quality. Glen's butterfly studies occupy a distinct place in his catalogue