Wild Things Artwork |
| "Dragonfly I - Silver" |
7"H x 10"W Colored Pencil and Water Soluble Wax Pastel on Ampersand Pastelbord. "Dragonfly I - Silver" will be part of an invitational exhibition and sale at the Melrose Bay Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Nov - Dec 2009.
This piece is one of an emerging series of small paintings of small creatures. I have intended to paint dragonflies for a couple of years now, but never really found the right reference material until my now-annual 2008 "western sojourn." Chasing after grizzlies (and we did site one at a distance right before dark), we found a lake shore aswarm with huge dragonflies.
This subject dragonfly has distinctive dark markings on his almost transparent wings. I pushed the contrasts of light and dark throughout the painting in an attempt to cause the dragonfly to "pop" yet still appear to be well integrated with his habitate. For the same reason, I chose to keep the palette limited to a few well-related cool colors. This sense of cool greeness recreates for me the look and feel of the lake shore where I found this dragonfly.