The Human Canvas - Do turtles... FRIGHTEN YOU???

Do they? 

DO THEY???

If so, read NOOooo... further.

If not...

Well, then join me.

C'mon a little closer, wouldja?

I was inspired to do some sea 

turtles by a friend who never received the drawing. 

Yet. 

Jen.

So folks, once again, here's Shaelyn.

(((Anyone else out there 

have trouble drawing reptile frickin' feet? 

Well, in the case of the sea turtle, just draw a turtle 

and give it wings. Problem solved!)))

Anyway,

While plenty O' sea turtle 

is a beautiful murky, brown-black, 

WELL worthy of the pen, there seem to be a 

bunch out there with some bursts of vivid color. 

Like many of my flowers, fish, and serpents of one 

sort or another, this gives me a chance to play 

with a bit of simple layering...

Some pink...

...A light purple...

(((There was an even darker purple pictured here, 

but it was shot from another angle and the 

jump-cut (as it were) was rather startling, 

and thus removed.)))

...Then it's just going back in and re-discovering areas...

And giving just a BIT of black.

Now Go in with a touch of a background 

for this little fella to be 

flying (swimming)

through...

And then, once again, a TOUCH of black. 

To define... And pop just a bit.

I've learned lessons

on this.

Done.

I actually didn't get any 

pics with Shaelynn looking over her shoulder. 

Bummer, as this was a cool tattoo strutting around 

Pappy and Harriet's on a REALLY cool night.

My birthday.

July 28th, 2013.

Thank you Jamey, Tish, Corrine, 

and of course Shaelyn.