"Palm King"- framed

This original pastel painting was the finalist of the prestigious Holmes Art Prize for Realistic Australian Bird Art 2022 - Maleny, QLD.
The artwork is professionally framed with archival non-reflective Museum glass.
Image size: 88 x 63cm, over the frame size: 119 x 94cm
Reference credits: Mike Rodenburg 
"Spectacular Palm Cockatoo is the largest Cockatoo and parrot species in Australia, which also known as Goliath Cockatoo, referring to its size and powerful bill. I wanted to portray this impressive bird on a larger scale to make his presence felt and appreciated, with a lot of feathers and beak details. The erected crest is truly reminds an elaborated black crown of the King! I have chosen soft pastel medium for my artwork to reproduce softness of the feathers and glowing blurry background, suggesting sunrise skies and tropical vegetation behind the bird that makes this magnificent parrot standout even more."

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Elena Kolotusha is a visual artist from Melbourne, best known for her super-realistic still lifes and animal studies. Born in former Soviet Union, Elena developed her passion for art from the early years and after studying at the Visual Arts Department of the Pedagogical University of Kazakhstan, she began her career as an visual arts teacher.
Since arriving in Australia in 1998, Elena has taken part in many group shows and exhibitions and over the years won numerous awards and commendations, including international prizes.
Elena works in various media including oil/acrylic‚ colour pencils/mixed media and scratchboard engravings. Her favourite genres are close-up animal portraits and observational detailed still life drawings with a hint of quirkiness and symbolism.
Elena's works were featured in many Australian and international publications such as "Australian Artist" and "Artist's Palette" magazines, "The Book of the Dog" (London 2015), "50 Masters of Realistic Imagery" (Germany 2015), "Inspiration Wild" (Australia 2014), "Strokes of Genius" series ( USA 2014, 2016, 2018), "Art journey - Animals" (USA 2016)
Elena is a fellow member of Australian Guild of Realist Artists, Wildlife Artists Society of Australasia and International Society of Scratchboard Artists.