I used heavy contrasts of lights and darks and many shadows to create a sense of realism. In this art piece, I took a butterfly outline, and instead of painting an actual pattern onto it's wings, I painted a city scene and different objects. I painted the butterflies with dark and bold colors, and then had the light clouds in the background. This contrast of light and dark really made the butterflies stand out. The unit we were studying was metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis is the changing of one object into another.
The idea for my art work came from the way people made glue in the old days, from horses if you didn't know. It started as a joke, and turned into a masterpiece. I choose to do this piece in graphite, because it is one of my strongest mediums. I had to decide what animals I was going to use and what plants I would use to make up the background. I used colored pencils to color the picture.