Freaking Baboon - this background of cracked paintwork could be seen as something real like thorn-scrub but I prefer to see it as more of an emotion when everything is coming at you all at once driving you to the point of screaming with rage.
Here is a mixed selection of my urban decay wildlife artworks. All begin as macro photographs of weathered urban surfaces. The kind of eyesores that get cleared away in efficient cities, left to grow elsewhere. In their fine details they can actually be quite beautiful. If you live in an urban area the chances are that there is some lovely cracked paintwork and rich rusty textures nearby. Abstract natural patterns created by that great artist we call weathering. At its best it's worth framing in itself.
I then take these macro photos and use Photoshop to blend in whatever wildlife feels like it belongs. Deciding this can be the hardest part and I regularly scrap some efforts that just don't look right. It's a combination of producing a believable scene for that particular wildlife even if it is totally abstract, plus balancing the composition, and the wildlife being visible without overly distracting from the patterning of the urban decay background. This last point can be particularly difficult with a background photograph that has lots of fine detail and fairly high contrast - in this case the wildlife always seems much too well hidden and barely noticeable, so I try to avoid working with them.
Evening Shorebirds - here some very rusted corrugated metal with a bit of cracked paint became an evening coastal scene for three flocks of shorebirds. The light and dark balance between the different flocks was the tricky bit with this one. I think the distant flock should perhaps be darker but I love the way it looks like the last rays of sun are catching some of the middle flock.
Forest Reindeer - this started as a photo of drip stains on the back of a metal road-sign. I toyed with the idea of adding more reindeer running through the woods but I'm glad I left it at one, which leaves a better sense of it being a fleeting, slightly ghostly vision.
Ibex Pair - the challenge here was to avoid losing the two ibex in the background. I think I got it right with their positions and size but the problem is that as I made them they are obvious to me and it becomes hard to judge how other people will see it. The angle of that streak of white paint amongst all the darker colours made for a great shaft of sunlight that helps to pick them out.
Tiger in Mourning - I stared at this photograph of weathered drippy paint on an old wall for quite a while without seeing what to do with it. Then I looked at it upside-down and the idea of an animal looking lost in a destroyed forest jumped out. And the red stripes suggested it should be a tiger.
Torrent Ducks - these paintbrush marks were almost too haphazard and confused to be useful but they did bring to mind splashing, foaming white-water on a fast-flowing mountain stream or river. And a bird that I had recently read about that fitted the scene perfectly was the South American torrent duck - not a subject used very often in wildlife art but what an amazing bird to be able to live in such rapids! Combining light-on-dark and dark-on-light animals in the same picture like this is a favourite tool of mine.
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