ILLUSTRATION

SLITHERING SISTERS

This was a personal project that took me a bit to wrap my head around! Just making sure that the snakes were realistically wrapping around each other and I wanted them to mirror each other. Once I had the angles and directions of the snakes just right, the rest however was quite therapeutic.
 

To make the detail really pop I decided to apply some bronze leaf, layering it to create a really textured look. This was my first time using bronze leaf and let's just say it's beautiful but very messy! 

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This piece was then digitised so it could be etched on to timber (see below). It took a few passes on the laser etcher to make sure there was still a lot of detail without burning the timber. I then added metallic bronze paint for the 'sun' and made this piece in to a box frame.

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