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Happiness Is a Butterfly

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youngmoons
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Description

'Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.'
Nathaniel Hawthorn

Graphite and coloured pencils on paper.
Reference: Dreams of butterflies
Image size
2256x1560px 3.14 MB
Make
Canon
Model
CanoScan LiDE 90
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Silo34
So nice! Your placement of the butterfly to form the smile (that the girl otherwise doesn't have?) is perfect.  Love the Hawthorne quote below it, too.  I work with graphite and charcoal and am starting to experiment with colored pencil now.  Do you mind be asking which paper you're using to mix the media onto?