Forest Alive with Hundreds of Butterflies

A forest full of hundreds of blue, orange and yellow butterflies fluttering among tall trees and ferns in dappled light.

Prompt

Build painted colour from slender interleaved pigment strokes that remain separate and follow the actual forms. Keep stroke clusters within each broad colour region; vary nearby hues gently rather than mixing the large colour masses. Every mark stays a slender painted stroke. Translate big silhouette, pose, colour masses into separate slender pigment strokes on painted support. Below fingertip scale: these marks only. Eyes/nose: medium-made, one medium-made highlight. Texture everywhere. Every surface reads as separate slender strokes, strands as stroke clusters and eye shine stays medium-made. A wide scene of a forest full of butterflies, hundreds of blue, orange and yellow butterflies fluttering among tall trees and ferns in dappled light; no people, slender interleaved strokes of separately visible pigment follow the forms and build the light. No readable text, lettering, signs or logos anywhere; the picture fills the whole frame edge to edge, painted right to the borders with no blank margin, no checkerboard or transparency pattern. Palette: butterfly blue, orange and fern green; fluttering, bright. Wide 16:9 frame.