Blinded Sphinx II

Here's another view of the blinded sphinx that I portrayed in my previous post.  I prefer my previous post over this one as having worked as a scientific illustrator, I prefer graphical interpretations of biological images. This one does have a surprising amount of color. I boosted up midtone contrast with an adjustment layer of a midtone luminosity mask adjusted to an s-shaped curve.  Lep scales exhibit a fair amount of metamerism which means that color may change based upon position of light and observer to the subject...............................Jim