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Feast Fit for a Crab
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Medium: Acrylic
Genre: Animals
Artwork Size: 34cm (w) x 44cm (h)
Uploaded on: Saturday 3rd Nov, 2018
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This artwork is available to purchase
Medium: Acrylic
Genre: Animals
Artwork Size: 34cm (w) x 44cm (h)
Uploaded on: Saturday 3rd Nov, 2018
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This little crab is enjoying a feast in the yellow seaweed of a rockpool. My impressionistic interpretation, in heavy body acrylics, focusses on blocky shapes, colour and pattern. The foregound is left almost abstract, which leads the eye up the picture plane, to the close-up view of the little crustacean. The colour scheme is kept minimal. Sunlight sparkles off the the crab's shiny, wet carapace, the weeds and the water.
I love to watch small marine invertebrates and found them to be some of the most fascinating and entertaining subjects, during my years as a scuba diving instructor. This image was painted (with kind permission) using a reference photo taken by Marie Antoniou.
July 2018, shortlisted for the RSMA Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
