TMTA / Insects

Insects are the theme this week at the TMTA challenge.

Here are my pretties:
Single chap, eh?
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The bodies are from an old engraved book on insects. I made liberal use of pearlescent, silver and gold paints on their bodies. The guy is actually lavender.
Background is a mixture of cream acrylic, green glitter glue and sage stencil paint. I usually put them in a heap and start blending on the card. Any overflow goes on the paper that covers my desk. Whenever that starts to look interesting I cut it up for new backgrounds.
I also made a gel transfer of some b&w line drawings of insects, but those got kind of buried under.