Peacock Butterfly
(Inachis io)
Gouache Insect Painting
| Peacock Butterfly enlarge |
Gouache on Paper 1980
6 x 5 ins
whereabouts unknown
A Gouache Painting of a British Peacock Butterfly
using an actual live specimen as reference.
Butterfly Gouache Painting Technique:
The Peacock Butterfly is painted life-size onto an
olive green coloured textured Ingres paper. White paint
is used for the lighter areas and highlights. The green
of the paper is allowed to show through in parts and
gives a unifying element to the Painting.
The Peacock Butterfly gets its name from the four eye
spots on the wings which look like those on Peacock
tail feathers.
The picture was produced when I was an Art student
at Barnsley School of Art and helped to get me a
place on the Wildlife Illustration course at Dyfed
College of Art in Carmarthen, Wales.
I have painted other Butterfly Paintings in recent years
but have not kept a photographic record of them.
A Signed Greetings Card is available of this Painting click here