Painting Name: Zebra Skin Pattern
A series of 5 different animal fur pattern paintings I recently started. I have in mind to do a few more when time allows.
SKU: 03AU21ACMedium: Acrylic
Size: 10x10 Stretched Canvas
Framed?: Yes, in a simple Antique Gold front with Black floating frame
Edition Year: 2021
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What Brought About this Painting?
I would imagine that most artists like to explore different subjects and ways to show the textures and nuances of those subjects - persons, places and things, and things in our own imaginations at times. There really aren't any rules that I know of, please correct me if you have a different feeling on that.
As an artist that wants to sell her work, I would also imagine that most artists share that desire, perhaps to various degrees. So exploring subjects are sometimes looking for an angle on how to find something different that a future admirer may be interested in. Tougher option to configure, but who knows when something might click with your viewer.
Animal skin patterns have long been admired by most people; we certainly wear it enough. We have it on our shirts, pants, dresses, handbags, shoes, jewelry, gee, everything including our face masks these days.
My thought was why not in our artwork - up on a wall. Whether a favorite animal pattern or a series of them. Thus, I started painting...
Zebra is the second in the series, Leopard was the first.
The Zebra
"Zebras are easily recognized by their bold black-and-white striping patterns. The belly and legs are white when unstriped, but the muzzle is dark and the skin underneath the coat is uniformly black. The general pattern is a dorsal line that extends from the forehead to the tail. From there, the stripes stretch downward except on the rump, where they develop species-specific patterns, and near the nose where they curve toward the nostrils. Stripes split above the front legs, creating shoulder stripes. The stripes on the legs, ears and tail are separate and horizontal. Zebras also have complex patterns around the eyes and the lower jaw.
Striping patterns are unique to an individual and heritable. During embryonic development, the stripes appear at eight months, but the patterns may be determined at three to five weeks. For each species there is a point in embryonic development where the stripes are perpendicular to the dorsal and spaced 0.4 mm (0.016 in) apart. However, this happens at three weeks of development for the plains zebra, four weeks for the mountain zebra, and five for Grévy's zebra. The difference in timing is thought to be responsible for the differences in the striping patterns of the different species.
Young or foals are born with brown and white coats, and the brown darkens with age. Various mutations of the fur have been documented, from mostly white to mostly black. There have even been morphs with white spots on dark backgrounds. Albino zebras have been recorded in the forests of Mount Kenya, with the dark stripes being blonde. The quagga had brown and white stripes on the head and neck, brown upper parts and a white belly, tail and legs."
Quotes
I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.
-- Louis Tomlinson
God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity! Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.
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