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This is the painting I referred to in A Study In Colour - a birthday present for my father, that I had to wait to upload.
Basic paintwork
Program: ArtRage 2.5 and tablet
Time: three hours on the main picture, another hour on the border
Species: Manta ray or Manta birostris
References and reality: well, a lot of photographs online and off, until I was sure I knew what they looked like (I knew what stingrays look like, from snorkelling and diving, so I had to just check the differences)
The white patches... appear to just be a phenotypic variation within the species.
And he liked it, although he insisted for ten minutes that it was a penguin.
(Which I can see... in colouring and the general streamlining of underwater forms and wings... for the first minute)
Painted a lot more bubbles individually in this - once I first learnt how to paint them properly (see Blue Waters, one of my later regrets was always that I stopped adding them too soon (such as in Stargazer
Also from diving, the knowledge that air bubbles join up as they rise, so the large ones are always nearer the surface. That's also why they're not round - the rising and the merging.
The light and ripples border was added partly to experiment with painting water like that, and as a buffer against the photo-printing site I used to get this as a present.
About the Manta ray
Beautiful, harmless creatures, that grow up to 7.6 metres across. They're pelagic and feed on plankton.
They have a lot of different names ( eg Pacific/Atlantic manta, devilfish...) and are a different family from stingrays (which are Dasyatidae)
There are two different manta species, both tropical - this is the larger one, Manta birostris.
The horns around its mouth are actually limbs - it's the only jawed vertebrate with six limbs.
They should not be touched, however friendly they are, as it removes the protective mucus membrane on their skin (causing nastiness... infections and things)
Basic paintwork
Program: ArtRage 2.5 and tablet
Time: three hours on the main picture, another hour on the border
Species: Manta ray or Manta birostris
References and reality: well, a lot of photographs online and off, until I was sure I knew what they looked like (I knew what stingrays look like, from snorkelling and diving, so I had to just check the differences)
The white patches... appear to just be a phenotypic variation within the species.
And he liked it, although he insisted for ten minutes that it was a penguin.
(Which I can see... in colouring and the general streamlining of underwater forms and wings... for the first minute)
Painted a lot more bubbles individually in this - once I first learnt how to paint them properly (see Blue Waters, one of my later regrets was always that I stopped adding them too soon (such as in Stargazer
Also from diving, the knowledge that air bubbles join up as they rise, so the large ones are always nearer the surface. That's also why they're not round - the rising and the merging.
The light and ripples border was added partly to experiment with painting water like that, and as a buffer against the photo-printing site I used to get this as a present.
About the Manta ray
Beautiful, harmless creatures, that grow up to 7.6 metres across. They're pelagic and feed on plankton.
They have a lot of different names ( eg Pacific/Atlantic manta, devilfish...) and are a different family from stingrays (which are Dasyatidae)
There are two different manta species, both tropical - this is the larger one, Manta birostris.
The horns around its mouth are actually limbs - it's the only jawed vertebrate with six limbs.
They should not be touched, however friendly they are, as it removes the protective mucus membrane on their skin (causing nastiness... infections and things)
Image size
1900x1400px 1.57 MB
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