Grace to Paint

 

Weekly Oil Paintings by Sister Maresa Lilley, SND

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Weekly Oil Paintings
by Sister Maresa Lilley, SND

Butterfly #6

Here is a delicate, buttery winged butterfly, childlike in design, utter simplicity in flight.

Butterfly #5

One marvel of the butterfly is that it eats its way from pupa to caterpillar to a hanging chrysalis where, inside,  it transforms into a kind of genetic “soup”. From this matter a new creature takes shape in dark and silence and later emerges as a wondrous winged beauty, so fragile and so brief in […]

Butterfly #4

One defense mechanism for butterflies are toxic chemicals of bad taste for a predator. Often, the brightly colored, easy to spot butterflies have this defense, and predators have learned to stay away from them. I cannot outdo the paintbrush of God; so lovely, don’t you think?