scene with snake and alligator

 This is from another graphic novel I'm  working on.

I'm enjoying this particular one.  If I had put the text in it then it would make this scene more understandable.  I didn't count the hours it took to complete this - but it was something like 10 hrs.

The glow-in-the-dark stuff had to be used sparingly on that coral reef mural.  You had to really gunk it on heavy to see any real difference.  And if you did that then it clouded the underlying bright acrylic paint.  That project is finished though.  And I've worked on a graphic novel that has turned into something that's just too long.

All the colored paint is on there.

The owner wants some glow-in-the-dark effects added.  I haven't used any of that kind of stuff before.  But I'm gonna do it soon on these walls.   I'll have to see if I can paint it on and still be ok to cover it with uv-protectant varnish.  ( Will it still glow in the dark if it's sealed with that stuff.   I'll post on that later.

It's otherwise DONE.

It's the most colorful painting I've ever done.

The decision was made to have the

 octopus a little more unfurled.  Of course you've gotta paint white down to make almost anything

else opaque or you'd see the dark coral right through the red arms here.

Maybe 5 more days to finish?!

I didn't add retarder to the paints here.  This means working fast in sections and blending with your fingers sometimes.  I'm usually wearing latex gloves here.

Reworked. Again.  I just didn't like the

way they looked the first time.  I sanded off some of the yellow and reapplied shading (greys) and then a thinner yellow.

Wasn't sure how to paint this.

This green anemone was something I considered difficult (until doing it).

I used straight dark green (shown here) as a background then mixed in this red (to tone it down) then added a little white to do the separate stalks.

The orange and red paints on the right, (AGAIN - 20 YR OLD PAINTS!) were used for the clown fish.