[Art] Yabbie / Blue Marron as Totem

[moonvoice]

Yabbie / Blue Marron as Totem

Definitely a strange one for me.







$65 US / AUD
18.5 x 20.5cm (or 7.4 x 8 in)
illo's board, fineliner, aquarelle, pencil, metallic paint

Comments

[nar-kiranka.livejournal.com]

woah

I'm so back.

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

The yabbie is very cool. I like the shading on the carapace particularly.

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

It's interesting. I like all the blue.

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Neat.

I pinch!

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

Mmm, crustacean.

I love the blues in this! Is it a small lobster or a big crawdad?

Re: I pinch!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Marron are small freshwater crayfish, you can see a bit more about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marron

We know them as yabbies, and some people also call them koonacs.

[silere.livejournal.com]

mm, beautiful. Bizarrely graceful. :)
I am loving that shade of blue with the red and orange, these days. think i might paint something in my home those colors.

<3

[paleo.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yabbie looks like it wants to hide even while being the star of an artpiece.

[praetori.livejournal.com]

Woa. Nice colors. I like the swirl between the feeler-things.

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

oh, very cool! Hooray, critters with pinchers!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Hee, awesome!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I didn't know if it would turn out, but I'm glad it did.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah this one is my most blue-heavy pic I think!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:D

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Blue and orange are complementary colours, which means that they clash when you place them side by side (they also create that interesting 'strobe' effect when you look at them for too long. Royal blue and cool red does it too); but they can look awesome in decorating schemes.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Probably because I was thinking 'tasty, yum!' while I was doing it. *blush*

Er, but yeah, they are pretty shy, ground-loving creatures. I like them, I've actually never eaten one, but my friend and I used to catch them in her freshwater dam with our hands (we were so STUPID. We got pinched so many times) and then release them again.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:D thank you!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Hee yeah. One day someone will request a stomatopod and I'll cry out loud. Those animals are insanely complex.

Re: I pinch!

[greenforest-elf.livejournal.com]

omg is crawdad a word??? we call all crawling water critters crawdaddies as a joke/nic name lol

[greenforest-elf.livejournal.com]

you are so cool :)

Re: I pinch!

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

Crawdad and 'mudbug' is something I always heard down South... I think the real words are 'crawfish' or 'crayfish' - basically they're tiny freshwater lobsters. Wiki says that they use 'crawfish' in Louisiana, but you only see that on fancy restaurant menus. I've never been to a 'crawfish boil' but I have been to a 'mudbug boil' and a 'crawdad boil'.

The photos I saw of someone holding a 'yabbie' made me wonder small lobster/big crawdad because it was bigger than the person's hand, but in the US our crawdads are usually only a few inches long (and oh-so-tasty), like big shrimp (what we'd call a prawn - they come about 10 - 15 per pound).

If what Moonvoice says is true, that for you a yabbie is a 'small' crawdad, I'd hate to see your 'large' crawdads! They could probably eat your head!

[thelittlestbear.livejournal.com]

Blue Marron is beautiful, I love the expression and positioning of him. I love the aquarelle work on his claws and head next to the tight patterning of the background. I could look at this for hours. I heart.

And yum!

[x-raeya-x.livejournal.com]

You know, I really like this one :D I'm glad you did blue marron and not straight yabbie though lmao. The shading on the yabbie is briliant, and I love the contrast of the orange swirls... I was always taught to draw a fine line of a complementary colour along an outline to make the object stand out and add depth. Beautiful.