Curious about how the special techniques I used to experiment with rock wall textures? You can find out the details next month if you’ve signed up for email updates; I’ll explain more about it in May!
ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #90:
The treefrog is another example that started with the plastic-on-wet paint technique! Here’s what it looked like when I took off the plastic:
Cope’s Gray Treefrog is very common in the neighborhood woods; the calls of the males are a classic late spring/summer nighttime sound, especially after a good rain. I consulted multiple photos to help me to choose a section that best captured the look of the skin; then I taped a tracing of my drawing to the paper and cut through both layers:
These are the colors and tools I used:
Just like the real ones, my painted treefrog can vary in color if you change the background!
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