Lesson of the Moth Part 2

In the first post, I introduced my rough sketch of Archie, the cockroach from Don Marquis's "Lesson of the Moth."  After creating a "rough cut" in Illustrator (now with color!), I decided to actually paint it.

And "Portrait of a Cockroach" was born.

The idea is that Archie is posing for his portrait.  The portrait artist included the "fabulous" wallpaper from whatever home Archie is currently stalking.  Since it's to scale, you can see how poorly the wallpaper was hung with the misaligned fleur-de-lys.  The artist took no prisoners here, people.

The rough cut

The painting