Buckeye Butterfly Blank Greeting Card by Emily Uchytil

This 4.25" x 5.5" blank card features an image from an original oil painting on wallpaper by Emily Uchytil of Wild Wallflowers in Parkville, Maryland. The card is printed on textured, recycled paper at a local, wind-powered print shop and includes a coordinating brown A2 envelope. Comes in a compostable acetate sleeve.

Emily Uchytil is an oil painter who focuses on creating ecologically themed paintings on vintage wallpaper. Reproductions of her original oil paintings are printed in her studio with professional matte paper and archival ink and all note cards are printed on recycled paper at a local, wind-powered print shop.

I am a Maryland based oil painter with a love for patterns, traditional painting techniques, and nature. I studied painting, illustration, and art history at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut, USA, and graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After serving in the Peace Corps in Africa, living abroad in Vietnam, and working for a few years as a public school art teacher in Baltimore City, I decided to put all my efforts into my artwork. I've been painting and selling my work full time since 2015.

I started out painting room scenes with overlapping patterns, bold colors, human figures, and moody lighting. My body of work now focuses in on the small spaces within those rooms — revealing what is hiding out on the ornate walls. Birds, plants, and larger-than-life insects are my primary muses.

Find more of Emily's work here.