Lizards often defend themselves from predators by self-amputating their tail to create a distraction and escape danger. Over time the tail of the lizard grows back, but sometimes during regeneration a "cartilaginous cord bifurcation" occurs which results in a lizard with two or more tails, and when that alteration occurs they are considered as mutant lizards. That's why, when I saw the announcement of the contest of @juliakponsford I decided to participate and create art based on a mutant lizard made with the technique of pointillism, this is my entry to ART EXPLOSION WEEK 49: Theme MUTATIONS

Two-tailed mutant lizard

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Materials

-White cardboard sheet.
-Graphite pencil.
-Sponge.
-Metal stick.
-Paintings.
-Scissors.

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Process

On a piece of white cardboard I drew with pencil the silhouette of a lizard with two tails with curved shapes, Then, using the scissors, I cut the silhouette very carefully until it was completely removed from the cardboard.

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I took the sponge and a few drops of brown paint with which I completely covered the body of the lizard, applied two layers of paint to obtain a uniform surface. Then with the white paint and a metallic stick I marked circles on each of the fingers of the lizard, and also painted the eyes of this animal.

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With a thin metal stick I painted small chain stitches on the edges of one of the lizard's extremities, connecting the small dots to the larger circles that were on his fingers.

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I repeated the process of placing small chain points on the edges of each limb, and filled in the interior space of each leg with larger spots of green and fuchsia. Around the eyes I formed an aquamarine dots chain followed by two chains of tiny white dots. I also gave shape to the animal's body creating chains of white dots that would delimit areas that I would then paint using other shades of paint.

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For the head of the lizard I used a lot of blue dots and some green aquamarine paint spots to fill the whole space. To mark the points I use metal sticks and in some cases round tip needles of various sizes.

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To fill the abdomen I used the same tones of paint with which I decorated the head of the lizard. In this picture you can see the stick I used to mark these points.

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the left area of the upper part I filled with dark green paint carefully marking each point.

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For the most important part of this work (the two queues) I wanted to use very small points that made it difficult for me to do pointillism, but with a little patience I managed to do it. As you can see, I marked in the tail big points in the center and small points on the sides, for these I used light green and fuchsia paint up to the middle of the tail.

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For the remaining part of the tail I marked a trickle of tiny dots with purple paint, and with light blue and aquamarine green I finished the rest of the tail.

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In the lower part of the abdomen I painted light white and green spots in circular formations following the same pattern until covering the entire space.

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Final Result

During the whole process that I showed you before, I used an orange cardboard as background, this in order not to stain the surface on which I painted, but having the work ready I put it on a sheet of white paper to take the final photos, here I share with you the most important one:

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VIEWS BY SECTIONS

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The realization of this mutant lizard took me three days of work, since I had to wait for each area to dry to continue with another, and also for the pointillism complex using paint I had to clean the metal sticks again and again. I hope that this work is liked by everyone who takes the time to appreciate it.

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Thank you!