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Submitted: May 7, 2005
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Frog Tribeby `ursulav

Anthro / Traditional Media / Painting & Airbrushing

Sometimes I get this urge to paint One Specific Thing. Usually a very simple thing, a small thing, the sort of thing that would be a minor detail. And driven by some sort of mad self-justification, I produce an absurdly large painting merely so that I have an excuse to paint the thing. "The Polar Court" was driven by the desire to paint checkerboard tile. This one was driven by a sudden itch to paint tree bark. Just...tree bark. Not even that MUCH tree bark. A few inches of tree bark would have been sufficient.

But no. I had to do an 18 x 36 mixed media piece, featuring three frogs, fierce amphibious jungle warriors, (kin, presumably, to the Kachina Frog elsewhere in my gallery) slime-skinned terrors of the treetop canopy (except for my favorite, who appears to be ready for a nap) and abuse the limits of what clayboard is willing to take from colored pencils, acrylic ink, acrylic, and pen. It took me days. I mean, usually a painting takes a day, maybe two, sometimes three. I was hammering on this sucker for a week. Because I had an urge to paint tree bark. Because tree bark was yammering and dancing in my brain like a small dog hearing the can opener. (It's shut up now, I hasten to add.) I obviously have no sense of proportion.

Anyway. Big piece. Original is for sale, but not cheap, send note for pricing. However, I have prints! Jumbo 13 x 19 for a mere $20 plus shipping, drop a line!

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~adamthewalker Aug 16, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Abusing the limits, hooray! There's a lot of depth in that foliage.

~Gears-of-the-Soul May 8, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

this is by far one of my favorites of your art. I love frogs and trees and tribal things, so three for three aint bad! I will be buying this print soon enough

~BrittanyWaters Dec 23, 2010

Usually I HATE frogs wearing accessories or clothing of any kind, but this is just wonderful! Beautifully expressive frogs with FROG bodies, not freakish humanoid bodies *shudder* humanoid frogs are sooooo ugy!

Also: Beautiful tree bark ; D

~glowing-fool Aug 11, 2010

reading your description of this piece makes me chuckle. i go through the exact same process of "oh, let's draw 'x'...damn, well guess i need to make a whole piece to house my trivial doodle in". great piece, love your work.

~MagicalIdiotSquigoo Jul 23, 2010 Student General Artist

Na'vi frogs!... sorry, I just had to get that out. This is really great. Nice work. XD

~ashnkatt Jun 5, 2010 Student General Artist

This comment was inspired by a message I left on `alexds1 art titled poison dart frog, it read....

I like this...one thing I could never understand is why poison dart frogs don't carry poison darts, the name is just misleading I tell you ^_^

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`alexds1 4 hours ago

Don't tell that to Ursula Vernon XD [link]

I now know that I can die happily knowing that some frogs do carry poison darts, and that some titles given to things in life, are aptly named. Oh happy days lolz