The Bestiary

Added a background to this

These occur in nature; it's a mutation called erythrism and lots of different kinds of organisms can have it

Musk thistle rosette - this is 9" x 9", and my scanner is maybe a hair over 8.5" wide, so part of it has been cut off.

This is very small in person; I'm sending it to my aunt as a Christmas card

My 2023 retrospective is probably the smallest yet -- I did not do much this year! I'm really proud of the citrus root weevil on the left though, I think he's an all-time favorite.

(A pity there is only one of him)

Prompt list by FossilForager on Twitter

Here's a version I scanned at 45% contrast. I'm not sure which one I like better.

The more diffuse regions of darker color are intentional; they're there to disguise messy bubble outlines.

The bubbles represent a new technique for me though and I really like them.

We had an unusual amount of rain this summer and it brought some green leaves down; these had a really interesting color that I'm not sure came through here, it was like a medium to dark green with a reddish brown undertone. I tried to capture it with a mix of sap green, burnt sienna and viridian.

2022 retrospective -- there's more here than I thought there would be

White snakeroot leaf with super dramatic yellow veins on one side

Made a pixel art version of this painting using this app

This took me a very long time because I painted it twice; it took me until finishing the first attempt to see that it wasn't Good(TM). This is the second attempt.