SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil Ink and watercolor on paper

Ink and watercolor on paper

but someone definitely put some love and effort into this

and one of my favorite things about some of them are their plated cedar bark bottoms--so I was sold immediately upon finding this one

as one of the boxes in this obsessively detailed attic reads “Bar Harbor Dress Shop

SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil Ink and watercolor on paperIt took me a moment to place this curious creature, but I'm pretty certain its meant to be a kangaroo. And rather a possessed looking one too, though I think really just in need of some love! And actually, as I look at photographs of kangaroo as I write this, I might say this carver did manage to capture some of their strangeness fairly well and perhaps this one is meant to be a protective mother! Incidentally, the terms for male and female kangaroos