Baby Tube-nosed Bat

I love this little fella, he's so cute. As adults tube-nosed fruit bats have very little fur.You can read more about this little guy here.The reference image was taken from the Tolga Bat Hospital facebook page.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Bearded Iris

Now these colours I love, they are me. If I could get away with it, I'd do my bedroom in these colours, but, I rent so that's out. I got bored with this one towards the end and put it off to work on Passion. I only had the central petal to complete and managed to hold enough interest to complete this piece. I was going to left the background black, but then I couldn't tell where the flower started and ended so I changed it to a dark smoky blue. I think it looks better. Now I must find something else to work on.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Passion

I've had the reference to this one sitting on my computer for a over a year now. I felt like a break from the flower I was currently doing and decided to work on this one for a while. This was pretty much a quicky from me. Once started it only took two days to complete.

 

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Dahlia

I love this mix of colours, they work so well together that I could resist painting this piece. After my last painting "Frilly Daylily" doing this one was quiet relaxing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was suggested to me that I upload some of the steps, so people could see it coming together. I took 12 snapshots of this, 13 if you count the background, but I'm not uploading them all.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Frilly Daylily

The colours attracted me to this one. I should have thought more about it before starting it. All those frilly bits, really made me hand sore and by the end I was glad to see the bad of it.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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Elliot

This is a painting I did of my mum's cat, Elliot. He was only 8 months old and had to be put to sleep suddenly (long story). I wanted to paint him for mum so she'd have something other then photo's to remember him by.

Created in Pixarra, Twisted Brush, 1200 x 1600 pixels

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