Ryan Rivers Art

INKTOBER day 28 and the prompt is 'skeletal'

I've drawn a thylacine skeleton for this prompt as I haven't actually drawn or painted a Tasmanian tiger before. There is a reason for this. My everyday practice as an artist is to draw from feelings connected to a shared memory or encounter with an animal or plant in its wild habitat. While I wish it was the case, I have yet to witness a thylacine alive and so all of my connections to these beautiful animals are from museum wet specimens, bones, pelts and taxidermy. Due to the thylacine being classified as extinct and there being no reports in recent history with substantial evidence suggesting otherwise, I am highly unlikely to ever see a living Tasmanian tiger, but I can dream.

Another step in the development, all foliage complete! Next up is the Grevillea 'Amber Blaze' aspect morphing into the eastern spinebills 😁