Return of the 52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 4

Week 4: Insects

Mixed media collage, with potato printing and sponging in acrylic paints on brown paper bag and black card, decorated with white Signo pigment ink and black, green, silver and gold Sharpies.

Update:

Watercolour cartoon on damp watercolour paper with mixed media and black Sharpie.

Week 4: Insects II

Black "Stained" Sharpie ink on dampened watercolour paper, painted in watercolours with white pigment Signo highlights.

Week 4: Insects III

Another week of catch up pics

Artificial Venus Fly Trap plant - almost as impressive
as a real one. 23 November 2009.


Miniature magnetic Spider-Man toy climbing my filing cabinet. 24 November 2009.


Closeup on bathroom tiles, complete with vanity cupboard door bumper. 25 November 2009.


Closeup up detail on on my Spider-Man shirt. 26 November 2009.


A plastic ant vanishes into a hole to help to recreate
the Aesop's fable, "The Grasshopper and the ant". 27 November 2009.


Third rescue for the day. A yellow and black beetle retrieved from
the backyard swimming pool filter. 28 November 2009.


Closeup on dragon statuary. 29 November 2009.