I've wanted to do a bat image for a long time now. The other day, I was going through my books of images with Susan (who's doing a bat pin for me), and I got inspired by all the bat photos all over again. And after my 6h panel, which was very red, I wanted to do a blue image. So a bat at night seemed like the perfect antidote to panel #6.
Here's how it started this afternoon:
And here's where we're at tonight.
This is a fantasy bat. Some fruit bats do have extremely fancy noses and others (the ones that hunt) have extremely fancy ears. So I've combined the two. I think it's looking very Balinese, which is not intentional. It's also looking a little grimlin like, which is also not intentional.
For a change, I'm happy with how the panel is going, and I don't see any major revisions in its future. But maybe that's bad?
[And people always ask, so...it took me about 5 hours to get to this point, which does not include the preparations part. And for the most part, I'm painting with a size 0 brush.]
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yowza! the eyes make it look like a mask. very mysterious.
I was thinking of naming it 'bat mask' or some such. But then the other day, I had a better title, which I have since forgotten.
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