Insect Dance
The original ink drawing
This original ink drawing is entitled Insectious. I have an old book on bugs and insects, a good reference to explore when I am looking for interesting shell patterns, claws, and in general wild body parts. They can be fun to incorporate into a drawing, as I have done here.
My acrylic painting of it
I then created a 12x12” acrylic painting that I titled Insect Dance. The image area used is a cropping of the original, painting more or less the left half of the image in order to fit the smaller size canvas. For it I added textural effects to the background with the acrylic paint using sponges, cloth, and bubble wrap.
I wrote a kind of poem/description of it:
reached me through the screen.
On closer inspection I came upon a writhing mass of
syncopated bodies, abdomens grinding, thorax bumping
and antennas intertwining, all to the horrible insect beats
coming from the mother moth.
Another version of the drawing with color dropped in:
surreal, lurid, unzipped
