Butterfly - Monarch Lifecycle (original) california_condor This original illustration of a

This original illustration of a Heerman's Gull is from my series "Birds We Love to Hate"

in a pattern behind it

Each grouping shows an adult male

When the young birds are a few days old

A unique communtiy of plants and animals depends on the year-round water there

Butterfly - Monarch Lifecycle (original) california_condor This original illustration of aThis original illustration depicts the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, including it's host plan milkweed. It shows the monarch from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult. The illustration is rendered in colored pencil on Duralene. Matted and framed, the finished size is roughly 16" x 19".