Soul Food (Numbats are Love)

[moonvoice]

I like this one, so I'm putting a copy here as well as at my Ravenari journal (once I decide on a price).

Soul Food (numbat + termites)





Link to a larger version is here:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/56281329/

Unfortunately I had to use flash photography to get a decent image of this piece, so a lot of the colours are distorted and a lot of the detail hasn't picked up, I think that's always the way when it's a large pastel piece. Oh well.

I'm rather enamoured of Numbats, they were one of my first animal guides. Information on the totem can be found here:

http://www.wildspeak.com/vilturj/totems/wnumbat.html

Comments

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

Nice! :)

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

Its still very purdy :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I love looking at all the detail close up in real life, particularly the tail. :D Yay!

Thank you. :)

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

I REALLY like it!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Me too actually! :) I'm hoping to take another photo of it under different lighting conditions, but I also wonder if I should just frame it and keep it in my home. heh.

Thanks! :D

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Have you seen a numbat in the wild?

Come visit Dryandra. I've seen them about 10 times now.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

No never in the wild, I got to go 'behind the scenes' at Perth zoo once, because my Grandma is a docent there. But otherwise I'd love to.

I just sadly can't do more than about half an hour's walking these days because of the botched knee surgery. It really puts a dampener on bushwalking. I miss seeing western brush wallabies all the time when I walked through koondoola.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

The great thing about Dryandra is that you can drive through the village there and see numbats, echidnas and bush stone curlew (and a stack of grey roos).

Or at least, I've seen all of those from the driveway.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOOOO RLY? :D :D :D

Hehehe. I get Landscope, and I remember a few issues back them doing a good spread on Dryandra and thinking what an awesome place it would be to visit and stay at.

Do you love working there? :)

Bush stone curlews are awesome, they have such weird looking faces, very direct. They have 'tood.

I've seen an echidna in the wild, once at Rocky Pool near John Forrest National Wildlife Park; I had stopped on the steep path, and next think I know, thirty centimetres in front of me this wild echidna just bulldozes its way out in front of me, stops and then just keeps on going on its merry way.

I love encounters like that. You must get a great deal of those. :D

[le-gris.livejournal.com]

Wow. The colors on that blow me away, and... okay, just wow. Pastels notoriously hate me, so that makes it even more impressive :P

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Oh superb! I like this one even better than your first numbat-offering (if that's posible).

[perzephone.livejournal.com]

Who says termites don't glow in the belly of a numbat? LoL - I obviously went to your deviantart site :) It's beautiful!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Awww thank you! :D

[redwolfdreaming.livejournal.com]

A most beautiful piece. :)