Instagram has been very useful for me as a tool to store references. I know I could use Pinterest. I have a Pinterest account; I almost never use it. It is just not in my brain as one of my processes. So I use Instagram. I post almost daily; it's part of my routine. I am not organized enough to keep my reference saved into anything other than one big pile, but at least I have that pile.
In my pile of art-to-look-at-later, was this bee.
I like it. It does not look like a bee, but it has style. I am still in a phase of trying to make art that does not look like I made it, so an ancient wall painting seemed like a good place to start.
So there's a bee. I mucked about with it a little already; it is my nature. Part of my original attraction to the piece, I think, was the texture. This is a very white postcard. I need it to not be such a white postcard.
Texture is building, but the card is still sparse. I tried sneaking in a bit of map and a bronze artifact.
So the texturing brought the three elements together while also just flattening the whole thing out. Dammit. I thought I could either try to build the bee back up to the forefront, or just keep throwing on elements to see what happens. You can probably guess what I went with.
Dammit.
Oh well.
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