Butterflies & Moths

 

Each of these started with one half of one full-sized pressing (i.e. both wings and the full body were pressed at the same time) - except for Ignus, which you can see are both halves of one press. I then used permanent marker to define the wings; breathwork next to define delicate wing-veins, bulk the bodies and detail the wings in general; drawing & shading with color pencil, sometimes in conjunction with oil pastel, usually is the last step.



ignus detail

ignus

mort gratica

paploschnap

psychedelica

raw detail

raw

verdithrix detail

verdithrix

 

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