Red Butterfly
About the Red Butterfly:
This is a revised version of the original Red Butterfly, which was my first digital butterfly artwork. I made the first version of the Red Butterfly on . This revised version has a long overdue fresh coat of paint. The original version appears faded, and off color, on modern screens.
I used to call this a monarch butterfly, but I recently discovered that this is actually a mixed–up hybrid between a viceroy butterfly, and a monarch butterfly. It has wings that resemble a viceroy butterfly, and a body something like a monarch butterfly. Oops! My bad. I had not done enough research on monarch butterflies, back in September of 1999.
In my defense, both monarch and viceroy butterflies do look very similar to each other, and back in 1999, when I first researched butterflies for my butterfly project, the documentation I found online was far less complete than it is today. When studying two of the better pictures I could find back then, one of a monarch, and the other of a viceroy, I thought the viceroy picture was just another type of monarch butterfly. I was wrong. Thus, because the viceroy picture I used as a guide for the wings did not have a good view of the body, and the monarch picture did, my butterfly ended up with viceroy–like wings, and a monarch–like body.
