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I love Qi Baishi’s paintings of prawns. Here are some more examples.
Of course, with their long arms & pincers, they are not quite the prawns we are used to eating here, more like crayfish. In China this year I ordered a dish of “prawns” and got a large bowl of tiny fresh water shrimp, all with little arms & pincers, to eat whole.
Here is a video showing sketching Qi Baishi’s painting – a good way to understand the structure.
This video shows how to paint these prawns, including some photos of Qi himself!