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Lately I have been really into creating mini watercolour paintings, as they are quick to do, meaning I can still create something even if I don't have much time. My inspiration for this painting came from studying human impacts on the natural environment. For example: how roads divide habitats, restricting animal movement and disrupting ecosystems.

Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘The Lobster Quadrille’ re-versed in the language of paint.

I was inspired to paint this painting by seeing reflections in the water. The picture is the same if reversed.

Pastel on brown paper. Trying to reverse light and dark. Good exercise but head and hands found it difficult!

I'm not sure if this is eligible as it is a handmade print, drypoint engraved into perspex, hand inked and printed, but it is basically drawn. I was concentrating on the image and forgot to do it in reverse- so the print is a reversal of the view! It's also a reversal of going out to the countryside for walks, I walked slowly in the enclosed back lane behind our terraced houses, and my cat was happy because she likes a companion when exploring.

A reversed image in the water is always inspiring, especially in watercolour. 

A few years ago I was fascinated by an article showing x-ray photographs of flowers. It inspired me to paint this Iris on canvas.

The theme itself actually inspired me to do something different.

Pencil on cartridge paper. Referenced from a photograph using glass ball to reverse the image.

Reverse Climate Change before it’s too late. Materials used ink and water colour.

As my entry for the theme I have attempted to create a 'colour reversed' version of an (essentially) Red, White and Blue image of our favourite Aerobatic Team in action. The process involved replacing all of the original colours with their complementary colours and thus produce a 'Colour Negative' effect. So, for example, Red became Green, White became Black, and Blue became Orange (plus all of their various mixing shades, tints and tones etc). I chose to use a watercolour background, with acrylics and fineliner coloured pens for the foreground and detail. The small inset picture at the bottom left, shows my image 'photographically reversed' to recreate a 'positive' version of the original, for comparison.

This is the historic market hall in Dursley reversed in a shop window opposite. It can be hard to know which is the original and which the reversal as the effect is so convincing.

Reflections are surely examples of reversals, so I've submitted a water-mixable oil painting with boat reflections to represent REVERSED.

This piece shows a tiger's face in the black areas of the tree bark.

Role reversal. Acrylic paint on paper.