Antilles Pink Toe Tarantula (avicularia versicolor)

Description

The Antilles Pink Toe Tarantula is 8 x 10 x .75 is acrylic and ephemera with embellishments on a birch panel with nested pine strips.

This spider’s proper name is Avicularia Versicolor, and is also known as the Martinique Red Tree Spider, and the Martinique Pink toe. This bright colored arboreal ‘old world’ spider spins funnel webs, where she hangs out most of the time. She is blue when she is a baby, then, as she grows, her carapace (above her abdomen) turns green.

This painting contains printed ephemera, as well as a tiny map indicating where this spider is found, and other facts about them, as told by the spider herself, in the first person.