My Best Painting So Far

Hi all,
I have just finished the best painting I have ever done and I'm very pleased. I painted it on the ipad using an app called Procreate and it came out very well indeed. I might be biased of course so without further ado I will show you the painting and you can judge it's merits for yourself.

There you have it, three painted lady butterflies feasting on an imaginary plant that resembles cow parsley. The reference photo was one that I took in the late 90's when we had an invasion of painted ladies. This butterfly is not native to Great Britain and usually only a few make an appearance from overseas.

I painted the butterflies first to make sure I could do them justice and then I painted the flowers on a separate layer. They were painted using a couple of stamp brushes that I created myself and it made the job a lot quicker. Painting each one of those small flowers seperately would have been tedious to say the least.

Here is the reference photo.

I increased the distance between the butterflies to improve the composition and I changed the flowers. The vebena bonariensis that are shown in the photo are nice enough, but I didn't like the combination of orange and purple.

If you would like to see a short movie of me doing this painting, here is a link to a short video I made showing how it was done.

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