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Bug-A-Day Challenge 2020 Gallery


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Bug-A-Day Zero: Happy New Year!

With a New Year comes the desire to improve oneself...in other words...Resolutions. For starters, I've decided to renew my Bug-A-Day project and see where that takes me. Maybe I can get past the three-month mark this time. Maybe I won't make it past one. ;) The goal is to complete a year.

The point of it is not to be perfect, but to work on something everyday. This kind of exercise helps get the creative juices flowing again, and is also good practice for techniques I don't normally use (ahem,...brush pen...).

This is just the gallery page. Each individual project has its own post should you wish to read more about it (the Days are links).



Ambush Bug


Hummingbird Moth

Day 3

Toad Bug


Frog-legged Leaf Beetle Part I

Day 5

Frog-legged Leaf Beetle Part II


Sick Leave

Day 7
Happy Anniversary!

Day 8

Devil's Coach Horse

Day 9

Spoonwing

Day 10

Roach on the Face

Day 11

Impossibly Fuzzy Bee

Day 12

Brushed Stag Beetle

Day 13

Fun with Dremel

Day 14

Brushed Mantispid

Day 15

Another Sad Cockroach

Day 16

A Quick Re-creation

Day 17

Acorn Weevil

Day 18

Syrphid Bee Fly

Day 19

Dremel Stag Beetle Part I

Day 20

Life Finds A Way

Day 21

Dremel Stag Beetle Part II

Day 22

Brushed Buffalo Tree Hopper

Day 23

Stamped Stag Beetle

Day 24

The Bee's Knees

Day 25

Brushed Leaf-footed Bug

Day 26

17-Year Periodical Cicada

Day 27

Ice Scorpion

Day 28

Fossil Wasp

Day 29

Katydid Nymph

Day 30

Hawk Moth

Day 31

Ant Mimic Mantis Nymph

Day 32

Boxer Mantis Nymph

Day 33

Brushed Violet Ground Beetle

Day 34

Tropical Stinkbug

Day 35

Stonefly Larva

Day 36

Brushed Pasimachus

Day 37

Another Sad (and Ill) Cockroach

Day 38


Roach sucks at Kite Flying

Day 39

Roach's Sandwich is Ruined

Day 40

Full Moon Luna

Day 41

Brushed Scarab

Day 42-44

Sick Leave, or, Brushed Syrphid Fly

Day 45

Luna Moth Earrings

Day 46

Ant Lion Larva

Day 47

Backswimmer

Day 48

The Bee's Knees Part II (or III?)

Day 49

Black Beauty Walkingstick

Day 50

Giant Waterbug, and a Story

Day 51

Brushed Bombardier Beetle

Day 52

Leafhopper

Day 53

Bee Earrings

Day 54

The Beetles

Day 55

Brushed Dobson Fly

Day 56 & 57

How I make shrink plastic earrings

Tropical Stinkbug Earrings

Blue Weevil Earrings

Day 58

Rainbow Leaf Beetle

Days 59 - 61:

Day 59: Brushed Blue Pleasing Fungus Beetle

Day 60: Brushed Metallic Wood Boring Beetle

Day 61: Colored & Splattered

Day 62

Tiny Ground Beetle Watercolor

Day 63

Tiny Stag Beetle Watercolor

Days 64 - 66

Day 64: Brushed Oak Treehopper

Day 65: Brushed Candystripe Leafhopper

Day 66: Paint & Splatter


Another Brief(?) Diapause


Alas! These challenges are difficult to keep up with!









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