latest updates: beetle

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  2012

  Jan 3
  5
  Nikira

  

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  Beetle. I won’t want to drive it, I like big cars, but have to admit, it is good looking. Sepia ink and couple of Kuretake pens.
  tags: beetle | Ira | Kuretake | sepia | sketch
   
• 
  2010

  Jun 29
  2
  Crooked Beak

  

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  Update of my progress on the beetle composition that I have posted elements of. It is nearing completion but still lacks a few more beetles and other details. The red longhorn beetle (Rosalia formosa) lacks the right antenna. I have temporarily omitted it until the remaining beetles are in place.

  A3 (16.5 X 12-inch, 297 X 420mm) watercolor Moleskine Folio, W&N Cotman WCs and Faber-Castell Polychromos CPs.

  http://crookedbeakworkshop.blogspot.com/
  tags: beetle | Coleoptera | Entomology
   
• 
  2010

  Jun 11
  4
  Crooked Beak

  

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  Dynastes tityus (Linnaeus, 1758) “Eastern Hercules Beetle”
  Distribution: southeastern United States

  W&N Cotman watercolors, FC Polychromos CPs, A3 watercolor Moleskine Folio.
  Part of a larger work in progress.

  tags: beetle | Coleoptera | Dynastes | Entomology
   
• 
  2010

  Jun 5
  2
  Crooked Beak

  

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  Gymnetis stellata Latreille 1813
  Mexico to Venezuela, SA

  Associated with low to mid-level tropical rain forests.
  Adults feed on sap, flowers, ripening fruit.

  W&N Cotman WCs, A3 Moleskine WC Folio

  tags: beetle | Coleoptera | Entomology | Gymnetis
   
• 
  2010

  Jun 2
  4
  Crooked Beak

  

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  Megalorrhina harrisi procera – Kolbe 1884
  Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
  Family: Cetoniidae
  Tribe: Goliathini
  Distribution: Congo

  There are apparently several “forms” or color variations of this subspecies.

  W&N Cotman watercolors, A3 WC Moleskine Folio

  Second completed beetle for a large WC composition.
  Progress photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21080378@N02/4660921233/

  tags: beetle | Coleoptera | Entomology | Scarabaeoidea
   
• 
  2010

  May 29
  6
  Crooked Beak

  

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  Rosalia alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Family: Cerambycidae
  Subfamily: Cerambycinae
  Tribe: Rosalini
  Distribution: Europe; extirpated in some parts, listed as endangered or protected in others.

  Approx. 6X8-inches. W&N Cotman Watercolors in an A3 WC Moleskine.

  This is the first painting of a planned wc compostion of several beetles arranged in a geometric pattern.

  tags: beetle | Coleoptera | Entomology
   
• 
  2010

  Apr 4
  0
  graycard

  

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  Just waiting for my clothes to dry…micron pen in a Moleskine Cahier

  More sketches at: http://lifeillustrated.tumblr.com/

  tags: beetle | graycard | micron pen | sketch | vw
   
• 
  2009

  Dec 26
  0
  salem

  

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  beetle

  watercolor

  tags: beetle | watercolor