EMERGING
by Debbie Cannatella
22"x30" transparent watercolor
(30"x38" FR)
This is probably one of my very favorite paintings that I've done this past year while painting for my solo exhibition. I just love the visual texture of alligator hide, and being a South Louisiana native, these monstrous creatures are all too well known. I thoroughly enjoyed creating the textured pattern, putting my decades as a highway designer to good use while drawing the tributaries linking one are to the next, like a network of roads. I wanted this guy emerging from the pigment. I suspect it won't be the last of gator paintings I will do, but he will hang in the gallery, looking at a long wall of birds! This is one of a series of wildlife paintings that will be in a new one-woman solo exhibition "The Natural World" in the Kuchera Gallery at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, Texas for the month of November 2013. To order limited edition giclee prints, see my Prints page. For more works on paper see my website or contact me through my gallery at Studio C Gallery .
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