Crabby Creature
by Omaste Witkowski
Title
Crabby Creature
Artist
Omaste Witkowski
Medium
Painting - Digital Reflection Painting
Description
I see a beautiful orange crab sitting peacefully on the sea floor. It's shell is a magnificent orange that is stunning to behold. The ocean it calls home is a wonderful marine paradise. Fish swim around harmlessly while crab boats and fishing boats alike crawl through the water trying to catch one of these crustaceans for a seafood dinner and a paycheck.
This painting started out as a picture of an orange lily. I painted and reflected the original image into a whole new image. I am retaining as much of the original textures as possible. I am using only the colors that originated in the picture when it was a photograph. I am using these colors as a starting point for the picture. Then I choose which textures to use to complement the colors. Then I start painting and when I have painted to my hearts content I create a new layer, reverse it and overlay it onto the original image. I call this a Reflection.
I am really enjoying using the photographs I have taken over the years as starting points for new individual artworks. I lover the tools that are available to help us create ever new and changing art works. A Wacom tablet and Photoshop software have opened up a whole new world of creative options for me.
"True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (Greek: βραχύς / brachys = short,[2] οὐρά / οura = tail[3]), or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. Many other animals with similar names � such as hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, horseshoe crabs and crab lice � are not true crabs.
Crabs are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, composed primarily of calcium carbonate,[4] and armed with a single pair of chelae (claws). Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans, while many crabs live in fresh water and on land, particularly in tropical regions. Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to 4 metres (13 ft).[5]
About 850 species of crab are freshwater, terrestrial or semi-terrestrial species;[6] they are found throughout the world's tropical and semi-tropical regions. They were previously thought to be a monophyletic group, but are now believed to represent at least two distinct lineages, one in the Old World and one in the New World.[7]
The earliest unambiguous crab fossils date from the Jurassic,[8] although Carboniferous Imocaris, known only from its carapace, may be a primitive crab.[9] The radiation of crabs in the Cretaceous and afterward may be linked either to the break-up of Gondwana or to the concurrent radiation of bony fish, crabs' main predators." Wikipedia
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March 13th, 2013
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