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9 Frogs - My elder son, Thomas has a number of very lifelike plastic models of Poison Arrow Frogs - brightly coloured and highly toxic critters from South America. I drew one of them, making it more symmetrical, and then of course I had to do more. I eventually found photos on the Web of dozens of different varieties, and I chose the most colourful and varied ones. The colours are actually sampled from the photos - they really are that bright. The mesh pattern on some of the frogs was generated by Dmitry's Spray program. I like examples of Nature using one basic design and just changing the decoration - she does that with fish as well.

 

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