The Scorpion

He is from the Thai mountain jungle. I saw him coming out to taste the morning dew in the mid of the mountain road in Lumpang province, north of Thailand. I put him as one of the Ref. photo for the Weekend Drawing Event this week on Wetcanvas. So I have to give him a try.

It is about 10.5x15 inch OP. I am still struggle with OP but I am sure the more I do it the better I learn about this medium. In this piece originally I mess up the top left background by adding a bright orange in a big blob that does not add anything to the whole. So I crop my painting a lot more out on the left. and here it is. Who would have thought that a "flower" lady like me is doing a piece of a scorpion.

Being Normal

This is an oil-pastel still-life postcard of the peppers in the black foam grocery tray on my normal chest X-ray film. I have been looking at my old chest X-ray film for a long time. Each year the mobile health check-up caravan will stop at my univ. in August. They provide us all basic health check. The bus is equipped with X-Ray machine. We take X-ray then the result will be sent to us a week later (with the film) from the hospital lab. My reading was normal. So today I decide to combine a bell pepper still life on this old film of mine. It looks rather odd when I did it indoor but after I hold this film in the sunlight it seems to pick up more character. What do you think? I hope this postcard will arrive safely at destination for our art exchange project.

The first one is the postcard exposed to sunlight. The second one is taken in natural light but in the shade.

Anyone has any experience of sending oil-pastel work over the postmail pls. let me know "how" not to smear it. Thanks a lot.