What did your friend say ???

He'll probably like it because it's so odd.

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Keep my house fly free…well sometimes.

You even got that zig zag in the web that Garden Spiders always include.

from my field guide to spiders of the Midwest. Yes, I have a field guide to spiders.

Especially garden spiders. But also jumping spiders, they are just so cute!!

I like that it's different and I like your use of color in it. It's unique.

Then I saw it on my laptop and now I like it even more! Good job.

I love the creativity and the spider!

but I wanted the focus to be mostly on it so it's a good deal bigger than it would be in nature. Kind of tarantula-ish.

It's aesthetically perfect for the frame. Thanks for sharing. This makes you both a lawyer AND artist, imo!

Very nice pic. Well done. An original.

No matter where you are in the world outside the N/S poles, you're never more than six feet away from a spider.

Many famous artists worked in collage. Man Ray, Picasso, Matisse, Max Ernst among so many artists worked in the medium.

Besides it's fun and creative. Yours is spectacular. Hope you used a hardener on the spidy and flowers and shums.

The surrounding objects were fastened with a glue gun so they should stick pretty well. Maybe I'll do another one some time.

Beautiful!

I've always thought the flowers were pretty.

I hope your friend likes it; not everyone is cool with spiders. Birds might be a more universal choice, if the spider is not popular. I like them though and think your piece is clever!

I've done a lot of bird paintings, but the spider was something new.

At least the '30s if not before.

The neighbors probably think (correctly) that I'm, um, eccentric.

Some of the best stuff to work with!

We had a beautiful garden spider who built his nest/web right there in the small enclosed garden area by the front door, and I always called him Igor. It's amazing what happens to lurk by, and make their homes along side of yours, isn't it? Nature and all of its glory. Can't beat it.

Not a fan of the Sydney funnel-web spider, but that's Australia where almost everything wants to kill you.

Thank you~

How about a crystal or small clear beads on the web somewhere? I love shiny things, so I add them to everything

It really is a great piece of art.

I do appreciate the suggestion, though. Maybe on another work if I plan ahead better - this was all pretty ad-hoc.

me something like that.

And we seem to be thinking alike. In fact, the original iteration had dewdrops on the web, but they didn't come out right so I started over.

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