{"id":1015,"date":"2020-05-25T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/painting-etlingera-dragon\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:00:01","slug":"painting-etlingera-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/painting-etlingera-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting \/\/ Etlingera dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of a rainbow series of dragons based on flowers from Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

Why Costa Rica? It just happened. I was pretty sure I needed tropical flowers to do a rainbow although maybe I should try a New England series next time. But I really loved Costa Rica when I went there years ago with my sisters. It’s a magical place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why rainbow? Because I used to do physics and ROYGBIV gives me useful constraints. (I suppose it’s good I can’t paint in UV or IR or radio or gamma … **chuckle**<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Why a different\/another series when I’m still working on the Oddly <\/a>Exotic Alphabet<\/a> (and, at least while painting this, also working from home AND parateaching kids at-school-from-home AND….)? Um, because it was paint and the other series is drawings? Because I’m kind of like that?\u00a0<\/p>\n

In my early research on flowers I wanted to use, I misread a local name (Emerpadora) as a genus name so the pencil title in the photo is wrong. (I have fixed it on the original.) This one is based on Torch Ginger, Etlinger elatior<\/a>. You may be able to tell from the iNaturalist link above that this plant prefers tropics, although it might be grown in local or botanical gardens as well.<\/p>\n

I note that this is somewhat redder than the photo suggests…at least on my monitor! YMMV… Watercolor, about 11.5cm x 8.5 cm (I misplaced my ruler with the English units, so it’s SI for you!).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finished in April as part of Ellen Million Graphics’ Finish Fest<\/a> even though I didn’t originally sketch any of them for Sketchfest. So it sort of bent the rules. Also the time frame. But I’m still ticked at finishing a painting yay!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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