Original artwork description:

Photorealistic insect painting of the blue scarab beetles on the animal horns. I channel my enthusiasm for the amazing characteristics of animals by rendering them with academic oil painting techniques on canvas.
The red sun indicates life & the universe. The background is light beige/cream.

I was fascinated by their amazingly beautiful blue/green metallic color. They look like gemstones to me. I painted with the animal horns which other objects I'm obsessed with.

In Ancient Egypt, the dung beetle now known as Scarabaeus sacer was revered as sacred. The Egyptians saw the scarab as a symbol of renewal and rebirth. The beetle was associated closely with the sun god because scarabs roll large balls of dung in which to lay their eggs, a behavior that the Egyptians thought resembled the progression of the sun through the sky from east to west. Egyptian amulets representing the sacred scarab beetles were traded throughout the Mediterranean world.

Materials used:

Oil

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