(Both are works in progress.)
The first one has taken weeks instead of days to get to this point. It's done in acrylic on a canvas sheet, while the watercolor one only has four hours put into it (so far.)
I am tired of painting the first one and also needed a study to get down all the little details before I paint them with acrylics, so I started this little watercolor last night. Originally I was planning to give my friend a crab done in pastel, but my bad cat decided to ruin it. Sasha loves to mess with my art, especially ones done in pastels! I didn't even get a picture of it. (｡-_-｡)
Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of making another pastel crab, as that one took me months of drawing and frustration, scrapping work after work to get it were I wanted it to go... I had the idea for it, but trying to put a concept onto paper is difficult sometimes, especially with visually complicated creatures like a crab. Then I started an acrylic one, but it was too small so I stopped painting it after getting the concept down. (I'll finish that one another time.) I started this much larger acrylic painting when I got laid off from my last job,but it is also taking too long to finish, mostly because acrylic painting takes layers to make it visually work well, and let's face it I'm a bit of perfectionist when it comes to my work.
My friend's birthday is in two months but he's been waiting for a long time already so it must get done soon! I do believe I may do at least one other watercolor, this time in many vibrant colors and give him whichever one looks the best. He's among my best friends so I do not mind the extra work... the challenge has been awesome!
It's funny though... I never thought I'd paint this difficult creature, as it has a very complicated structure, which took a year's worth of research just to get its armor down pat. (Some of that research was really good, especially with butter! lol) While it's general shape wasn't hard to draw, the structure of each piece of its exoskeleton and how it all fits together was difficult to master. I believe that after I'm done, I'll owe my friend a big thank you for liking crabs so much that he wanted me to paint him one, because that crustacean has so much character.
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~ Your Pal A.L.
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