If you camp or hike or just hang around outdoors, especially in the dessert, you've probably seen these. You might know them as stinkbugs, but really many different bugs are known as stink bugs, so it's good to be specific. Pinacate comes from an Aztec word. I usually see them walking in the road. Since they can't fly and aren't all that fast, it's nice to help them to a safe place out of the path of cars or hikers.
Some of you suggested or surmised that my series of paintings could be bugs. And you are correct. I'll be painting bugs for a while. This is the third one in the series. The second, a more complicated subject, is still in progress. I enjoyed painting the ground as well as the bug. I've noticed with the bug paintings that when you make the bugs large, the background needs significantly more detail.
The computer problems persist by the way.
I like the background as well as the bug! You are right, the bigger the bug, more work detailed work on the backdrop needed.You chose a good contrast here..
ReplyDeleteGreat stinkbug. I love "googling" bugs, for some reason. I don't especially love bugs but have been interested in drawing them at different times. Great job Barbara.
ReplyDeleteI camp and think bugs are icky. You did a great job on capturing this one. Don't they have the most scratchy legs.
ReplyDeleteI remember harassing stink bugs as a kid. I would never have thought of portraying one in a work of art.
ReplyDeleteYour wonderful painting has provided a whole new perspective for me.
Great job on this bug! I am fascinated by them too - live in an old stone house so it was either accept them, or find another place to live!
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