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Passion
This drawing will be at my upcoming show And Other Stories at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Ottawa. Please come see it, if you can! Opening night is next Thursday, August 24th at 7PM!
“The Moose at Bay,” watercolour signed B.Mc.B. 1876
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“Moose Attracted by a Forest Fire at Night,” watercolour by Denis Gale / 1860
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“Moose Deer of North America (17 Hands High),” hand-coloured etching with watercolour by George Heriot /
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Genderbent Monkey King
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Wednesday Addams // watercolour by Harriet-Julia
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Some of my new art will be up @ Venus Envy, 226 Bank St, in downtown Ottawa all through March!
pencil, watercolour, and bodycolour, 64.8 x 77 cm
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‘A Hedgehog’ (before 1584) by Hans Hoffmann (1530-1591). Watercolour.
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Lemur tardigradus [sic: Nycticebus coucang]; Booah Kawah (Coffee Tree); Kong Kang; Kongkang [in Jawi] by an unknown (anonymous Chinese artist) between 1819 and 1823.
A watercolour drawing of the Sunda slow loris or greater slow loris (Nycticebus coucang; known in Malay as the kongkang), clinging to a coffee plant (Coffea arabica; Malay buah kopi or kahwa). The animal depicted was originally identified as a red slender loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), but this is incorrect as the red slender loris is confined to South Asia. The drawing is one of 477 natural history drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore commissioned by William Farquhar.
National Museum of Singapore.
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The Sea Turtle (1867)
These beautiful watercolours come from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887. He was relatively unknown until, decades after his death, his work was “re-discovered” by surrealist André Breton who was taken by the surrealist aesthetic he saw present in the images – as he writes: “Lacking any biographical details about the artist, one can only indulge one’s fantasies in imagining the reasons which might have induced this workman from Upper Austria, a dyer by profession, to undertake so zealously between 1832 and 1887 the elaboration of the most sumptuous bestiary ever seen.”
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Invisible, Yes - The Whole Night, No. (2009) - Watercolour, Acrylic Colours, Ink, on Paper - 37 x 27 cm
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Tigger
I painted this a bazillion years ago. It really needs to be framed.
Screed Owl - Red Owl
"A single owl is depicted perched on a branch holding a rodent with the claws of its right foot"
...watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s...
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Maria von Moehrl. Watercolour by L. Giuditti after L.G. de Ségur, 1846. Wellcome Library no. 708243i
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