National Wombat Day

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I woke up this morning to hear on the radio that it is National Wombat Day.

My non Australian friends may ask What is a wombat ?

I decided that I had wombat enough sketches to show you. All are sketched with watercolour pencil. I have noted which are from photos and which are in real life.

From photos I took at Narantapu National Park n Northern Tasmania.

The sketches above were drawn as part of the Kate Johnson’s Watercolour Pencil Workshop in 2009. It was online and interactive with the wonderful Kate (Cathy) Johnson. This is when I really discovered watercolour pencils and have not used anything else since. I was very honoured when she asked to include this sketch (and a few more) in her book, “Artist’s Journal Workshop: creating your life in words and pictures” p 25. 2011 Noth Light Books

from photo I took at a Wildlife Park
From photos I took at Narantapu National Park n Northern Tasmania.
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(above) Wombat burrows. On location at a friends property. I kept checking all through the night at intervlas, but did not see any wombats.

onsite at Australian Museum Sydney
On location at Melbourne Zoo. Wombats are generally noctural. There was a walk through darkened tunnel you could walk through and I was so excited to see this wombat squashed up against the glass. He stayed there for ages sleeping and sifting occasionally. and I sketched, Lots of schol groups noisly went through, only stopping for a minute and not really interested in him or me.

Happy Wombat Day everyone.

2 thoughts on “National Wombat Day”

  2. alissa Post author

    Thank you ! Lots of people know what koalas and kangaroo are, but not some of our other lovely special wildlife. We had wombats, possums, platypus, echindas and many more…

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