A Chrysaora fuscescens in Watercolors - [ENG]

in art •  7 years ago  (edited)


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Hi Steemians, today I took the time of the afternoon to do something different, I do not usually paint animals but these days I've been thinking about starting to paint marine animals, and I started with maybe one of my favorite sea animals, the jellyfish! ... although I do not know much about them beyond what little I have read online, I would like to continue learning more about them.

My desire to make this painting came about thanks to my jellyfish feed that I have on Pinterest as you can see below.

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Chrysaora Fuscescens

The Chrysaora fuscescens is one of the many existing jellyfish species, they live in the Eastern Pacific Ocean but they also have a distribution by many other places, from California to Japan, also reaching the seas of Chile, they are distinguished by the color of their upper part (the bell) is of a distinctive brown or gold with a reddish touch, its arms are long white spirals and around them it has 24 undulating tentacles.

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I have chosen this one specifically because it is one of the jellyfish with a more friendly appearance and its colors are very bright, it is not really lethal for humans but the toxins that it releases are effective in us. :(

It is also a kind of easy maintenance, so it is very popular in aquariums, it can live well under conditions of captivity, and although I would like to adopt one, I think it is evil to enclose an animal as beautiful and exotic as this one.

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Process

I have to admit that I did not register this painting properly, I was so inspired that I forgot to take pictures of every detail or thing I was doing, so I will only present 3 steps including the last one.

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The first thing I did was make a sketch of the jellyfish bell, and only that, because if I added a lot of pencil at the time of painting it, the lines of graphite could be seen, after that, I started to give touches of rose with the watercolors, I started with very light tones but then I added more layers of color to create the vignettes.

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Behind me there was a door that leads to our backyard, and on opening it gave a better lighting obviously, in the first one everything is darker. I skipped a lot of steps, but I had already painted the bell of the jellyfish, I started with red on the edges and I added rose to lower the hue, these watercolors have the quality that I can mix them and to obtain a darker pink I mixed with red.

The inner part of the jellyfish I painted it with yellow reducing it to an almost pastel tone and I mixed it with white too, I used the same tone for the arms.

I painted the tentacles with the same shade of red and pink that I mixed, to tell the truth, this part was difficult because I do not have a finite brush, and I was using one of those that end in a fine tip, but if I settled it a lot I could make the stroke very thick.

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I added more rose to the corners, the rest of the tentacles and I was finally finished.

The photographs in step 1 and 2 are quite opaque because I took them with my cell phone. But this final along with others I took with my camera, so they could appreciate the real tone.

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And a mandatory photo of me with my painting.

Do you think that the idea of mixing art with little scientific issues such as talking about animal species is a good idea? probably I'll do more of this type, there are other jellyfish that I would like to paint.


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Thanks for be here!
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©2018 María Zerpa

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Wonderful colours, and I love the movement in the art. Gorgeous! :)

Thank you, happy women's day <3

@ilhuna this post was presented at the morning session of Pimp Your Post Thursday on the Steemit Ramble Discord. It was one of five choosen for the video report on the session. Just stopping back to let you know that you can see your name in lights right here. (Just kidding about the lights :)

Waaa, thanks!!

Hermoso dibujo :)

graciass!!

I love the colors that you used :) It's a beautiful painting and looks feminine too :)

Thank you, yea! added that delicate and pink touch

me encanto el dibujo, me gustaron los colores y también la idea que propones, a mi se me había ocurrido pintar animales en peligro de extinción... hermosa tu medusa excelente post!

Graciaaaaaas, deberías hacerlo :) !

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