Colour Challenge Yellow Wednesday! "Beauty Queen of Disaster"

in art •  7 years ago 


This is just a little 8x10" painting. I decided to play with metallic paints and texture. She's a fairy designed from a Praying Mantis. She's pretty fancy, but when you think of praying mantises, you should not forget their brutal mating rituals. I'm grateful to be human probably not often enough, but when I think of eating my partner to nourish our young, I'm just a little glad I'm mammalian.

Last night was our last pirate show of the year. It's too bad there are so few summer nights with enough heat and light for us to perform outside here, but Dave let me in on a little secret that we may, with some luck, get to create a new show to tide the winters over. Indoors, of course. Nobody would appreciate an outdoor winter show. Not the cast, not the audience, not Dave. Although a park is a viable idea for an outdoor show next summer, weather permitting.

The restaurant sign is done. I look forward to the unveiling of it! That'll be happening in the near future.

And today, I get to help Mikey move some heavy things around in a storage unit for one of his clients. Ah, we are cheap labour for love.

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What kind of shows do you do? I wish you the best over the winter since it sounds like a hard time. Since we're both pretty new, how about we follow each other?

Aside from my artshows, I do improv shows with my team. Thanks! We've actually been pretty successful at filling up our venues.

I've been Steeming over a year now. Not so new. ;)

Such an interesting painting! I can't help but to keep coming back and looking at her.

Thanks @dswigle! It was a little bit inspired by my best friend, who keeps talking about how much she loves textured artwork, which I don't do a whole lot of. I appreciate your looking! :D

Oh, you are welcome! It totally deserved an upvote! At least 100%!!

please excuse no upvote today as I am pathetically steemless and must rest for a few days to recover. Sigh.

Thank you!

It's ok. So long as when you do upvote, it goes toward posts you feel deserve to be upvoted, the meritocracy prevails. :)

I only posted this on the ones that deserved it and I couldn't give it to them today. ;)

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Your painting looks 3D, like it's popping out of the page. I bet that's fun painting with metallic paints. Are these acrylics?

Thank you very much, @cabelindsay! I do like metallics. :)

Most of my works are acrylics. This one is, for sure. Sometimes I do some oil painting. I love it! If it dried faster, I would work with it much more. :)

I do love that metallic sheen. I have a friend who is a watercolorist, and she let me try some of her shiny watercolors. Tried some non-objective art. Thinking I'd like to experiment with some more shimmering paint 🎨.

I had no idea there were metallic watercolours! That's neat.

Do it!!

Absolutely love this; it looks like she is surrounded by lightning of gold.

Thanks @twirble! That's a nice description. I like it. :)