Post YOUR artwork here, cmon !!

[kingwilly]

Looking great, Nigel.

[El Gibbon]

As mentioned earlier, this freaking thing kicked my ass all over the pallet. For some reason it didn't go well from the start but it is what it is.

Tawny Closter from my own photo.



I was trying to represent a very cluttered ground cover that was in the original photo of mine... DISASTER. Lesson learned. This canvas is way to small to do all the detail necessary with the brushes I have at hand. Lesson learned. ( new brushes/additional brushes on the way from the US ) I tried using a different brand of acrylics, Daler Rowney System 3, a high end student grade. They do not have the pigment load of the Windsor & Newton and caused some problems with coverage, especially in shaded areas. Lesson learned.

So there it is. May put a ground over the whole thing and do something else...

This is probably the last in the butterfly series.

An interesting thing about butterflies, they have their own system of camouflage to ward off predators. This one is a great example of the use of "eyes" to symbolize a much larger predator. Another significant one often seen is the color red which in nature signifies poison. Go figure.

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