{"id":283,"date":"2012-05-08T20:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T02:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2014-07-05T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:52:08","slug":"making-giant-pacific-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"making “Giant Pacific Octopus”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Giant Pacific Octopus, KAnandakuttan<\/p><\/div>\n

The other day I was asked about my process for “Giant Pacific Octopus,” a printed digital painting hanging in an exhibit. It has been in several shows over the past few years (Illustrating Nature, Santa Cruz; “A Closer Look at Wild Things,” Santa Cruz; 2011 GNSI Annual Exhibit in Olympia, WA; and this month at the Finley Center, Santa Rosa).<\/p>\n

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sketchbook, Giant Pacific Octopus<\/p><\/div>\n

One day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I stood with my nose to the glass looking at the octopus’ tentacles, as it rested on the other side of the glass. I sketched. After an hour passed, she let go of the glass, (looked at me, I think) and I kept sketching. I scanned a black ink sketch, done from these studies, to form the base “layer” of my digital painting. Many hours and Photoshop layers later, using a pressure sensitive “brush” at different opacities, the octopus was finished.<\/p>\n

Prints are available at Saatchi’s online gallery:<\/em><\/h3>\n

http:\/\/www.saatchionline.com\/art\/Digital-Painting-Giant-Pacific-Octopus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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