Day 12 - Blue lizard

[vilakins]

Today's entry for the naarmamo National Art Making Month challenge is the blue ceramic lizard that climbs my sitting room wall. I bought him at the Ellerslie Flower Show a few years ago where I couldn't resist him with his rich blue glaze. He's bigger than this; about 40cm long.

Blue lizard



You can see I got a bit tired of doing his scales. :-P

My NaArMaMo 2007 Gallery is here.

Comments

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't said he was climbing the wall at your place, I'd've thought he was a design for a brooch! (Well, I'd wear him :-))

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

So would I, I've already got one in marcasite.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have one in silver! I love lizards.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He's pretty big. Hagrid might be able to wear him. ;-)

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous blue, and you've captured the highlights very well.

I've got a lovely, sinuous, stylised bronze lizard high on the wall above the window in this room. I got him in Utah.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Sounds fabulous; I love the shape of lizards.

Mine is in this picture (http://www.farsight.net.nz/images/lounge.JPG) but he's in the shadow of the yucca which has since been moved outside. There are now two small, spiky tropical plants under him now, and in no danger of concealing him for years. :-)

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Hey! He almost looks 3D to me! (I should mention that this is unusual because I don't see in true 3D - both my eyes work, they just don't function as a team, meaning my brain is doing some interesting interpretive work.)

Nice work on the shading and highlights.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think it's the highlights!

I didn't see in 3D till I was 14 and got a contact lens for the right eye that only saw 6 inches away. I was stunned. "Your desk comes out from the wall!" I said to the optician, and for about two weeks went around looking at everything in a suddenly 3D world. I sometimes wonder if it's easier for me to translate to 2D when I saw that way for so long.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

He's so cute! I love the way you've shaded the wall so delicately that it gives him form without being obvious. And he is a lovely ceramically, shiny fellow.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The fuzzy brush set to low opacity works very well! And yes, he's beautiful. I'll have to find some more relatively simple objects like him to draw.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

love the blue colour...and it looks like it's hanging on for dear life...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Awww. He just looks as if he's climbing to me.

I adore that rich blue. If you came here, you'd be able to tell. :-)