Hawk/Sphinx
by Hexagon
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Description
Illustration Series: Backyard Insects
Artwork Title: Hawk/Sphinx
Media: Hand painted with Wacom & PSP7
The sleek shape and bold colouring of this particular moth captured my attention when I spotted it in our back yard. There are approximately 1000 species of Hawk Moths also known as Sphinx Moths. This illustration is the Vine Hawk Moth or Silver-striped Hawk Moth and it is one urban Australia’s most common. Hawk Moths are easy to identify, although they have a large abdomen their wings are tapered making them aerodynamically shaped. This shape makes it hard for them to glide like other lepidoptera, but with rapid shallow wing beats, it allows them a powerful and fast flight of up to 50 km/hr. This rapid beating can raise body temperature by up to 10 degrees Celsius, and the motion allows them to hover motionless and to even fly backwards. Often you can hear the hum of their beating wings.
Dusk sparked ignition,
Hums elegant cloaked machine
lightning manoeuvres.
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Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Uniramia
Class: Hexapoda or Insecta
Order: Pterygota
Suborder: Heteroneura
Family: Endopterygota
Genus: Lepidoptera
Species: Sphingdae
Scientific Name: Hippotion Celerio
Common Name: Vine Hawk Moth or Silver-Striped Sphinx Moth
Specimen Location: Maitland NSW Australia
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This is one of what will eventually be a series of 24 insect illustrations.
(I've currently completed 12, but all are not yet uploaded.)
Each of these illustrations are hand drawn / painted using a Wacom tablet and PSP7.
This collection of illustrations explore some of the interesting variety of creatures living within a very small radius. All of the specimens were discovered within a ten minute walking distance of the Central Business District of Maitland NSW Australia. As most residents and business people go about their daily routine they are often oblivious to what they would consider irrelevancies around them. These creatures, although often unobserved by all that pass, captured my interest and fascination. They were not chosen as subjects because they were exotic nor endangered but simply because they were part of my every day life. I attempt to explore and display the beauty of colours, pattern and shapes of some of the familiar creatures within my own environment.. Each creature is presented with an air of importance. Their forms are large and dominating within the artwork ensuring they are no longer overlooked. I present a realistic depiction making them easily identifiable. They’re produced in an attempt to create a wider environmental awareness.
It isn't until one stops focusing on "self" that they can truly see, experience and mature.
Have you looked outside of yourself today?
Abandon self,
summer breeze caress senses
universe expands.
...Di
(Hexagonal Mandala)
Comments (7)
Mondwin
Reallt a wonderful illustration...bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx
Claywoman
Awesome drawing!
kansas
A magnificent painting of this moth. Interesting info also. A wonderful series.
koosievantutte
very fine image.
3Dillusions
Outstanding image the details are superb :)
npauling
Lovely detailed work and this is a wonderful series that you have drawn for us. Thankyou.
TheSeekerr
Very interesting image - I'm not sure that you intended a different style for this image, but it seems to me that this is, of the series, the most similar to a "traditional" painting - it has a texture very much like brushstrokes which words very well for the fine hairlike details, and reveals much of the texture of the underlying leaf.