12 x 9 in.

For my Aussie friends! My mom tells me that I have been to Australia once but I was too small to remember.

All this means is that I want to go back. 

Visiting Australia has been on my mind lately, as has painting this piece. I think I first sketched it almost two years ago. Um hello that’s a long time to have one painting idea stored somewhere.

Anyway, now it’s finally out there and it was such an interesting one to paint. First, I realized just how unfamiliar most of these animals are to me. Second, their coloring which informed the entire color palette of the piece was also very unfamiliar to me. Stretched me. I was stretched a little creatively. I have never painted a Wombat before or used mostly grey and brown colors.

In case some of this fellows are new to you too, from left to right a baby book-book owl, wombat, echidna, koalas, kookaburra, kangaroo, fringe-necked lizard, wallaby, platypus, sugar glider and emu. I’ve got to say that the in this one, the sugar glider is killing me. Wouldn’t you love to fly like that?

{click here to buy original} also available as a limited edition large print over at the shop - a small size just doesn’t do this one justice