Camouflage

This is a visual essay featuring a variety of animals with unique camouflage traits. The intention is to be drawn to the subject’s prey or predator first, then slowly begin to find the camouflaged creatures. Each piece has more than one subject animal. Try to find them all!

2024

Watercolor painting of a winter landscape with snowy ground, pine trees, a mountain with a snowy owl, a lemming, tundra.

Snowy owl

FOUR HIDDEN

Orchid mantis

TWO HIDDEN

Common octopus

TWO HIDDEN

Satanic leaf - tailed gecko

THREE HIDDEN

Peringuey’s adder

TWO HIDDEN

A watercolor painting of pink orchids blooming on a green stem, with a black butterfly with red spots resting on a green leaf branch extending from a mossy tree trunk. Orichid mantis
A colorful underwater scene featuring various fish, coral, and marine plants with a large moray eel and common octopus
Watercolor illustration of a bird cuckoo, perched on a tree branch on the left side and three satanic leaf tailed gecko on a mossy log on the right side, set in a forest scene.
Illustration of desert scene with small bushes, a purple gecko, and a Peringuey’s adder snake.