My husband came in from the garage the other day and told me to hold my hands out. I did...
He put these in my hands... It's a good thing I'm not squeamish! A shed caterpillar skin and the resulting pupa... Here's what the pupa looks like up close...
The underside (top) looks almost as if it has a face and on the back (bottom) you can tell where it will split open...
Photo source:
www.carolinanature.com
To reveal this! An Imperial Moth
(Eacles imperialis) ... with a wingspan of 5 to 6 inches...
I've been working on an oil painting of a Prairie Warbler on gessoed purple scrapbook paper that looks like old wall paper. I'll post it when I'm done. But I thought I'd post a few of the backgrounds I've been prepping for other oil paintings...
Vintage sheet music adherred to 5" x 7" masonite and coated with with matte gel medium. After a few coats of the gel medium, comes a couple coats of clear gesso and then a final wash of clear gesso with a few drops of turquoise acrylic paint mixed in. Finally before it dries I wipe alot of it off with a paper towel. A singing bird will go on this background.
These vintage illustrated dictionary pages are prepared the same way, but are on 6" x 6" masonite, with the wash being green. I'll be painting Poison Dart Frogs on these.
Metamorphosis in progress... in nature... and in art...
