Fossil paintings

[nanila]

I haven't painted since my trip to Norfolk in April - and I still haven't shared all the pieces I finished while I was there - so I was feeling a little down when I unearthed these this evening.

I painted these in Cambridge, probably not long before we moved, and forgot about them.


Two 8' x 8' canvases, gesso primer slashed with a putty knife, acrylics and watercolour washes









I don't know. They're okay, I guess. I was trying to create impossible creatures - things that might look real at first glance, but then wrong on closer inspection. I succeeded at that, anyway, but the execution falls short of the vision.

Comments

[quoththeravyn]

I like these, a lot. Kind of a mashup of archaeopteryx fossils and a dancing coyote mischief-god or something.

[nanila]

They're definitely having a conversation. Or at least, the one on the left is talking and the one on the right is listening and making its own private interpretation.

[pulchritude]

I like these!

[nanila]

Hurrah, thank you for telling me!

[surpassingly]

Beautiful movement and strokes *_*!

[nanila]

Ah, thank you! This means much to me, coming from you.

[sfred]

They're lovely.

[nanila]

Thank you for telling me. I'm happy you think so. :)

[ceb]

Having seen The Archaeopteryx, Yes That One, I think they're beautiful! Especially the one on the right.

[nanila]

Thank you. Gosh, yes, I wonder if I'd seen it before I painted these? I can remember the dream I had about them, but not what prompted it.