Just starting to add some colors! 

Fantastic!

Beautiful!

Looks like the wife's project has got you flying away.

  This butterfly was started because I had two pieces of baltic birch sitting there going to waste from the first butterfly frame I made for wife. This is one of the center pieces I had left after sawing out the frame for her first stained glass butterfly. So I found a few things in my files that I traced around that might end up looking okay one way or the other. Then after I scroll sawed the pieces out I then went to the band saw and after removing the scroll saw turning I then sliced the bb half as thick as it was then run a ruffing bit with the dremel  to carve out cavities on the board around the carvings. Then air brushed five different colors, covered that with a few coats of lacquer and attached a saw type hanger on the back and now its hanging.

  I did loose a few pieces but decided not to worry and didn't remake any and just don't look in that area to worry about it?  I did all this while waiting for the small monarch butterfly frame to dry each time I sprayed it with lacquer.

  I only used one ruffing 1/8" bit for all the grinding on the entire butterfly. Its still ruff as a cobb because I just wanted to see how it will be accepted as people look at it up close. 

   I don't normally trace around things like this time for I usually glue a pattern on and you can see where I was not real accurate in my positioning of the pieces but hey it my style this time.

 

Beautiful work

It took me forever to find some polka dot paint but she is finally finished.

 The glass she chose for the body gives it a great 3D effect, beautiful work from both of you.