A rose chafer beetle (Cetonia aurata). The topic at my local art society this week was to paint an iridescent insect and it just so happened I had a photo of this chap from when I rescued him/her from the kitchen of the place we were staying in Switzerland a couple years back. Never tried iridescent before and maybe watercolour's not the best medium to catch it in... the piece only really came together when I added some colour pencil over the painting.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Insect (Other)
Size 600 x 440px
File Size 391.9 kB
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