Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, ink pens, spray paint, printing ink, artist made stencils and a collage piece on 300gsm watercolour paper.
The Australian Ibis is a wading bird of the ibis family and is widespread across much of Australia.
Known affectionately to many as the ‘bin chicken’ due to their habit of rummaging in our garbage as their presence increases in our urban environment.
The white ibis loves to feed on terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates and human scraps. Unfortunately these birds have come to be regarded as a problem species in some areas as a result of their scavenging activities.
I have a soft spot for this native wading bird and find it a spectacular sight when I see they fly in a group soaring across open skies.
In recent times a congregation of ibises could been seen spread out over a large, partially flooded, oval next to our gym each morning for many days.
With kind thoughts of bin chickens and marshy, watery environments I selected one of my multiple layered intuitive created bases, to develop into an imaginary world for my Ibis to live.
Picnic is a light, bright and quirky piece even if it contains a touch of sadness with one of my birds scrambling for rubbish left behind by careless humans.
As Picnic requires framing, my artwork photos include examples of how she could look framed and hung.
Please note that my in situ images are for display purposes only and may not be to scale.
I create organically therefore I did not trim back the rough edge running down the left-hand side of the page. If you prefer a clean edge, you could have the border trimmed back or covered during your chosen framing process.