Title: "Akiko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Chikako" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Emiko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Eri" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Hiroko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 SOLD! Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Keiko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Mariko I" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Mariko II" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Mieko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Minori" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Yoshiko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge
	Title: "Yuko" from the Madame Butterfly series Medium: Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache, color pencil, pen and ink, metallic ink) Size: 18" x 24" Year: 2005 Click image to enlarge

MADAME BUTTERFLY SERIES

To me, Madame Butterfly is always a woman. She is the contemporary Geisha of the 21^ST Century. In the new millennium she comes still holding onto the traditional aspects of the Geisha; wearing the kimono, complete with white face make-up, lipstick, hair combs, and the upswept hair-do. In this series, I depict her breaking out of this ancient mold by opening up her kimono revealing herself to others and allowing herself to be unbound by the obi tie exposing her most feminine quality to us; the cleavage.

Beautiful Madame Butterfly caresses herself gently and shows us her sensual side. She entices us with her demure looks, and quiet sensuous demeanor. She is the feminine energy in all of us looking and wearing eye shadow in every painting and peering at something, never looking directly at us. Her head is bowed, but it is her mood that captivates us. What is she thinking?

Madame Butterfly is alone in her garden late at night while the moon is out contemplating upon the lovers in her life. Flowers play a major part of the painting; they represent the different men in her life. She gazes at the flowers with the moon behind her watching her choose the flowers.

“The Flowers represent the men who come and go in my life”

When the flowers are fresh and new, they look beautiful, strong, robust, firm, noble, and proud. New flowers are radiant, they give her life and feels exciting. She loves to touch, smell and feel these flowers but then after a while the flowers start to wilt and die. Madame Butterfly is in her floral garden waiting and searching for the one flower, the man whom she will give her eternal love to, a man of beauty, elegance and spiritual sensuality.

---DULCIE DEE---