After a few tests, these were the outcomes of my stencil idea. Being pleased with this, I have cut more and more stencils of various creatures to try. I ordered a fibre based photo paper pack instead of the usual glossy photo paper. This will give the photos a more natural finish.
I've the idea of creating stencils of different types of insects and bugs and placing them on photo paper while exposing. These pages present my testers for this technique.
These are a couple of test paintings in practice for a triptych a plan to make from my butterflies. The test is purely to see how well I could work with a new water colour palette.
These are the latest images of the caterpillars. For this set, I focused on the change of a caterpillar to a chrysalis. The images here are my most successful.
Another focus on the Painted Lady's coloured wing.
A close up shot of the Painted Lady's wing.
As part of my FMP (Final Major Project), I purchased an online butterfly kit. After receiving the caterpillars, I realised my camera was not quite advanced enough to produce the images I wanted. A macro would have suited best, but due to my student budget, I had to go for something cheaper. I purchased Extension Tubes, which acted as a macro. The following images are the most successful I have taken using the extension tubes.
