Greetings,
I recently posted about the creation of the Flrrbl creatures. For my next still life (not sure if that phrase still applies😜) which featured Flrrblz, I sketched some different poses, this time with wings popped out in a beetle-ish way. A hard shell with wings underneath:
I hung small tubes of paint with fishing line with the desired tilt and location to give me an idea of shadows. Some crappy rum stood in for the whiskey (no need to waste good whiskey, obvi):
The first stage:
Next stage:
And the finished painting, "Frrblz Circling Whiskey" (12x12 oil on panel, 2013):
Thanks for reading! My next post will feature the brand new painting which revisits this theme 5 years later. -David
