Here's a painting just for fun I completed today. I've been doing all of these painting with swirly circular shapes and was thinking about where we find this shape in nature. This is a coiled snake with it's mouth open. Can you see it? I painted this on a very light, transparent white Washi paper. I was surprised that the paper took the paint quite well and is much stronger than it looks. We sometimes get very big snakes that come down from the mountains in my neighborhood.

Snake Bite 66 x 96 cm. (26 x 38 inches) Sumi ink, Gouache, Acrylic and Pastels on Washi (Japanese paper).

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