Garden Spider

Agriope aurantia

Here is a large scale work I did for class 2nd year of a Yellow Garden Spider or Argiope aurantia. This one is just from a photo but these big guys used to camp outside my house when I was little and build webs that were sometimes 2 feet in diameter. What I loved about these was the contrast between the black and yellow patterns on their backs. The head on this came out rather flat but I hope to go back in the future and touch it up.

Acrylics
Stretched canvas with Gesso
16 hours
Roughly 2.5 x 4ft