smacked by a fish (again)

I posted this gem earlier today over on the From the Stacks blog. This time  (as a tool to help my own self see the changes over time) I remembered to take some photos of the process.

These follow after the break below. :)

A beetle smackdown

Published these two images over at the From the Stacks blog today. I knew if we kept doing the Illustration Smackdown long enough I would eventually get a critter I had drawn/painted before. I did both of these images in 2006 - the color image as a live demo done on the public floor of the museum. I had started off doing a butterfly from my own collection, which was crumpled by an inquisitive 3yo while I chatted with his mother. The Naturalist Center had a pair of beetles under glass, so I pulled out some new paper and got to work.