Meerkat | Wildlife Painting
"The Sentry" Meerkat Portrait painting by Michelle Wrighton
I created this digital painting fom a photograph that I took of one of the Meerkats at the zoo, but I thought he needed to be put back into the wild, so painted a more natural background environment for him to live in:) This is another one of the first digital smudge paintings that I did, but I had to leave it for a while as I had removed the background and couldn’t work out to put a layer in behind him. LOL in the end I just painted the background around him and then blended the edges of his fur in with the background. I know most digital artists get the most of the program they use by createing layers for each element that they paint, but I find it much easier just to paint from the background forwards, just like I do when painting with real paints on real canvas!
Tags: african wildlife, Art - Wildlife, meerkat, painting, wildlife painting
