Turtles are known as one of the great healer medicines. It is said that all healers have turtles and badgers and frogs in their totems. We have a few turtles at the museum that I help care for, and it's amusing to see how their personalities differ. They start to recognize those that come to feed them, and when I bring the sponge to scrub their shells.
On a completely different note, I've decided to go back to trying to see how painting animals would go without a background. I'm not quite sure if I like the background or the feather pattern better. But I'll probably do a little bit of both here and there.
Niiiiiiice work! This is a great pose - he's got that "Yeah? What?" look, and the scale texture is perfek.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing about the scales on him, I got frustrated with trying to be too detailed, that I just kind of dotted the brush around for half of them, and it magically worked out perfectly. LoL
ReplyDeleteThank you though!