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This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Li was the gracious hostess.
I chose this sunning American Crocodile.
This is standard acrylic on hardboard. I was happy with last week's painting, so I tried this one in the same manner. Black and gray gesso loosely blended with a painting knife...leaving the knife marks and a marbled gesso.Then I applied thinned acrylic of different colors in random patches. Did the drawing, then painted with many thin layers. I also used a Pitt Pen sparingly for emphasis in select areas. I tried to inject more color than the dull gray hide that was pictured.
I thought of how the croc has evolved and has been around for millions of years. I was thinking this as I watched the painting evolve under the brush.
Hope you like it.
C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!
Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com
My Etsy
Genesis:1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Hi there Dean!... Masterful the way that this croc... evolves literally and visually from out of the background so subtly! Your lighting is all that really chisels the actual reptile so that one can differentiate him from the background! Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI really like this one! Great technique!
Good Painting!
Warmest regarfds,
Bruce
Thanks for your great insight, Bruce! Glad you liked it!! :)
DeleteA fantastic painting...its amazing!!!! the colors, texture..one of your BEST!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hilda,,,I'm really beginning to feel more encouraged.
DeleteHe looks so deceivingly docile yet maintains that wild quality. Nice.....
ReplyDeleteNever trust a Crock...Just ask Capt. Hook! Lol!
DeleteI love this job ... I like the color and texture, as if the crocodile is integrated with the background. I love it.
ReplyDeleteHi, Mayra! I truly appreciate your thoughts!
Deletea great painting of such an unusual subject. I was born in Florida...so I have a special feeling about reptiles. I find them to be very beautiful (though I would never want one for a pet!) You did a wonderful job.
ReplyDeleteReptiles Do have a definite beauty. So supremely adapted.
DeleteI just love the colors in the rock (or dried mud) that he is sunning on, Dean. You did a wonderful job!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Sherry!!
DeleteVery nice! You captured him well. I bet you would have been a good dinosaur painter..!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan! Much appreciated.
DeleteI used to really be into drawing all the dinosaurs back when I was around ten years old. Even knew their names..Lol!
VERY well done, Dean! Your painting of him really has that predatory and dangerous look.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kathryn! Predatory is a perfect description!
DeleteWicked looking crock. You did a great job on him, capturing the roughness of his hide. Bravo!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lokelani...I have been working at trying to achieve the look of texture in my acrylics.
DeleteI really enjoyed going through your work again Dean, especially those expressive animal faces! Great croc by the way. Positively pre-historic
ReplyDeleteThanks, Liz! Welcome back..I've really missed you!
DeleteLove this, Dean...
ReplyDeleteHe's not exactly attractive in real life, and I think you've made him quite handsome.. Can't believe this is so small. I guess maybe if it were bigger, viewers might think he would "get" them... he's very much "alive"!!
There is nothing I have ever liked about the croc...until now and you have made him almost handsome. Must be the pretty colors. (I usually like MOST reptiles.)
ReplyDeleteI really like it Dean...
ReplyDeleteI agree with Marian, it not being attractive but you have made him really beautiful. I love the way you are using your colors and acrylic.