Graphosoma italicum

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Nothing wrong with trying out a new medium, everything wrong with the medium refusing to work the way it does according to the packaging. This is the third time, I’ve tried using Keramiplast to make a little thing and we are all very excited to find out if acrylic paint will stick to it as soon as it is dried.

A raw sand colored ceramiclay sculpture of a flat shield bug. It doesn't have any color yet and is very fresh and still drying. Its antennae consists of two black metal cable binders.

Graphosoma italicum is a very colorful shield bug I first spotted two years ago. With its black and orange stripes and the carefree attitude a lot of shield bugs show, it is true pleasure to look at, stumbling around on flowers, drunk on nectar and pollen.

Rawest version of the still wet flat bug figure without antennae, next to some tools that were used to shape it.

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