The Butterfly Bodice Sketch

the idea for this is a little bit of lolli and an a bit of goth, hence loli-goth. she's the butterfly keeper. Her name is Sadie after my great-grandmother. When I was very little I use to stay summers with my grandmother caring for her. She had severe Alzheimer and would call me everyone of her 15 children's names, including my uncles and aunts. Well to put it simply, I use to go butterfly hunting and would bring the biggest, loveliest butterflies home in huge preserve jars i found in the house. I'd keep them for the day, staring at them, sometimes drawing them and then let them go by evening. ^_^ One day, I caught a huge butterfly and brought it home with me, ready to show my grandmother. I hid it behind a chair on the front porch to go get her, when Granny Sadie decided to come out onto the porch. By the time I had come back, the jar had been "tipped" over. I still believe to this very day, that evil woman and her "selective" hearing, seeing, remembering (at times) had done it on purpose. Trust me, this woman was indeed tricky....and devious at times. Anyway... I give you the little Princess Sadie and her butterfly cage. ^_^

finished piece: [link]