![7aprilHiveThumb.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/donnadavisart/23wCDvkjo7yVMPQTM9oHtZLevxjcMJc51sitNRCBxz5QJmqUCnfrndNvEkBLnRog1h9c6.jpg)
**She'd found the creature trapped thus** Her own hand, equipped with sensors to detect movement hidden under objects, had felt the flapping through the rubble of the decaying building.


![Hnet-image (1).gif](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/donnadavisart/EoGwyGtfa2kggNi8imCaoEuJ3t7FCb6mc1vmahUwRzYv5XUydRETf3xxRKGvpV586nu.gif)

**She could set it free by moving the atoms of the glass** and with a start burst forth the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. Many more creatures were trapped inside spreading out their wings in the joy of freedom and escape.

**Any beauty in this world was important.** 



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I hope you like my little quick story and my artwork. This is a piece from a larger painting in my Singularity series that is still unfinished. Yet, I've found a few "stand alone" paintings in it.

This bit was a sketch once:

![7aprilHive2.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/donnadavisart/23vsqxzwFw6WXuwWYrVfNijriEuqbZMRKNVovkotemvP95o9NVCFv2FGgTitM2nLnXNBB.jpg)

**In fact when I started the overall painting, this was the first idea sketch** adn tho the larger piece has more in it, including the ladies face and a dog and cat and an old building, there was something about the butterfly story I loved.

**The butterfly has always represented the Human mind, so I love having them represented in the Singularity pieces**


![7aprilHive1.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/donnadavisart/23wCJ1tLxQnJVVgv83pNpYsdSxg9e4fSfeC1XnypuX7uHCdspWtYTWT3hvnT5AoKdmtXB.jpg)
**Here we have the sketch layer on as I was working with watercolor and pastels to get the colors built up**

The joy of taking one's sketches digitally, as I've oft said, is the beauty of layers. And that I can have watercolor paper on one layer and oil on canvas on another in the same piece is magic to me.


![7aprilHive3.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/donnadavisart/23wCG5fYJmvHCkUtvb3gq5RRq5tWZSabfuTLR8Zzv8draZYCjSeQGiKPgyziuh8mW2QSP.jpg)
**And this section which has become this painting** with only oil layers now present. 

I had fun making the gif and in fact I made it the hard way. I would love to learn the animation I see so many use for NFT, but I do it the hard way in Shotcut (video editor) having to have multiple layers of my work and then green screen images etc. 

After that I had to convert the MP4 to a GIF to show here, but the MP4 I'm going to score with music and make it into an NFT. I Shall shall that when it's finished (if it's okay to show the same image again, tho it will be in another iteration).

I hope you enjoyed my little painting and the animation and the 'story' which is really just the whiff of a suggestion of a world that might be in a few lines that amuse me.

I hope all of you find a moment in your day to indulge in your passion and as always, remember to stay creative.