Flamingo! (wood print | blue on pink and green background)

Flamingo! (wood print | blue on pink and green background)I had this idea while I was working on my sugar skull drawing. And at the time I had just drawn a few flamingos for my day job and had flamingos on the brain. So I decided to do a little art therapy and draw a flamingo in my style of drawing. I wanted textures and patterns to be an emphasis in this piece also. I really like the texture of the flamingo that I came up with and what better way to add a pattern than to add a flamingo wallpaper as the

To me a charging rhinoceros is one of the coolest things in nature unless you’re on the receiving end of their horn

I once read of an ancient myth that the earth was formed on the back of a turtle traveling through the cosmos

So I added a kind of antique wallpaper pattern to a sunburst of melaleuca tree bark

Not every death is explained

It was for a team project thing and they were called the Argonauts

Manatee and all that he can eat

Seahorses like so many creatures in the sea are almost other worldly

My idea for this drawing also inspired my idea for this entire series of drawings and a new direction for my art

All wood prints are printed on birch finishing plywood and come ready to hang

I combined African and Australian tribal patterns for the background to help accentuate the origin mythology

They have so many segments to their skin it makes them a very interesting subject

And skulls of course