Combing his hair...
The new Tardigrade is here! And he is combing his fur...
Portraits are not photographs, I told him. You have to be in the center! For the correct composition. No... he shifted to the side, almost outside of the stretched canvas, he wanted his golden comb to "fit into the frame".
Original acrylic painting on stretched canvas, 10x10 cm. The background is actually dark dark blue, not black.
PS
I used, if I'm not mistaken, stretched canvas by Winsor & Newton for this one. Very smooth and slippery. Not good for glazing, for painting thin transparent and semi—transparent layers (I paint my Protists this way). Something rough, like a stretched canvas from TAIR is better for this. But when it came to painting hair/fur - it turned out that smooth and slippery canvas are perfect for this! Perfect for my Tardigrades. Painting fur on this canvas is a delight.
- From WIkipedia: Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ("little water bear"). In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada, which means "slow steppers".
Original acrylic painting on stretched canvas, 10x10 cm.
