The Monarch Rules the Thistles

This small floral watercolor captures the sparkling beauty of a vividly colored monarch butterfly quivering amid soft thistles. Esther likes to spend time admiring the wonderful contrasts in nature and then has fun translating this into her watercolor world.

The matted version of this print has a soft gray (fog) top mat with a narrow edge of royal blue underneath. And the print "Crocus, the Butterly Flower," another of Esther’s florals in this web site, is the same size and a good companion for this print.