This commission for the Coyote is part 1 of 3. I finished it last night, and would have finished it sooner, but it took 4 days for my materials to arrive. When I finally got the last bits assembled, they looked markedly different from the rest of the work because the glue wasn’t dry yet, so I waited another day to take the picture.

Needless to say, this was difficult to photograph and the true majesty of the colors does not come through. Everything is washed out and leaning toward green. The inside of the mouth is actually purple, but this seemed to be the best I could do with the light available.

The backing is a panel from a tent pavilion, like the kind you can easily set up on the beach or something. The colored part is transparent packaging wrap I got at Michael’s. Every color has a bunch of other colors in it, so you get different iridescent effects in different light, or by layering the colors. I made layers of colors with matte medium in between, which changed the way the light interacted with it. The metallic lines are 1/4″ silver washi tape. The entire work is about 6 feet long and 3 feet high.

This one probably took close to 12 hours because I had no idea what I was doing. The subsequent panels should be much quicker. This project highlights my commercial failings as an artist. Here I have invented and mastered a ridiculous technique that no one else is using, and which I will probably never use again.

Stand by for panels 2 and 3.