for my own enjoyment…
Don’t afraid. He only eats graps…
One in a series of animals I’m working on.
This took a while, primarily because of the hair. First real attempt at doing any kind of hair, and it was tricky getting both the colour right and the underlying form of the muscle looking right.
He’s really quite serious.
“Squawk – fancy that!”
Drunk on eucalyptus leaves, it sleeps high in the tree.
A blend of maybe elephant, tortoise and insect. If I thought I wouldn’t ruin it by continuing, I’d paint in the small fire it’s supposed to be standing beside, that is warming the girl who was lost on the coast where it lives.
Headed back to the sunshine of home for Christmas 2009, and painted this as a Christmas card to irritate the loved ones we’d left behind to what turned out the be one of the most bitterly cold winters on record in Ireland.
Having spent the previous 4 Christmas’ in the northern hemisphere, I’ve come to see the relevance the of icicles, snow men, and rugging up warm connotations that come with this time of year. This was my boys second Christmas, the first being in Ireland, and i wanted to see how he’d go building a snow man in the sand.
Based on a lyric from a song of the same name, by Sydney band, Karma County.
