Original artwork description:

First I created a watercolour painting using different patterns and shapes, in blues, aqua, paynes grey, orange, black and gold. The bees were then hand-cut from this watercolour painting.

I then masked off a rectangle on a piece of heavy black card, that I wanted the bees to sit on, and splattered it with white acrylic paint and gold ink. The bees were then decoratively arranged in lines and attached to the card on tiny foam board plinths.

To add more three dimensionality I've angled the wings upwards, and framed the piece within a deep black box frame glazed with perspex.

Materials used:

Watercolour paper, watercolours, heavy black card, foam board plinths, gold ink, wooden deep box frame glazed with perspex

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