Flying Trilobite Fossil II

The artwork for my new blog banner, you can see here
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at my site, The Flying Trilobite.

Oil paint on shale roofing tile.

I wanted a rockier look this time, and painted using more greys and browns. And always naples yellow! I painted the shale with clear gesso so the oil would not soak into the porous stone and cause the colours to dust when dry. I painted the entire stone, to better colours match the fossil on the surface.

I tried to add more shadows this time, to make it pop a little more into 3-d.