Chinook, From Animalia Part of  Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital  | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 37 hours
Quote: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”  — George Orwell
Reflection: Far more people are killed each year by teddy bears than by wild bears.

Lykaios, From Animalia Part of  Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital  | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 45 hours
Quote: “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ” ~ George Carlin
Reflection: As humans did, wolves evolved in families, found strength in numbers.
Members of any healthy family — human or wolf — assume roles that help the family thrive.
Like human parents, the alpha pair makes decisions and controls the pack.
Other members contribute to the pack’s survival and the care of the pups.

Maximilion, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 41 hours
Quote: People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day. Mark Shand
Reflection: At the turn of the 20th century, there were a few million African elephants.

Ozzy, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 38 hours
Quote: I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.
For me, they are the role model for being alive. —Gilda Radner
Reflection: It is NOT a dog’s nature to fight for no reason. In the wild, wolves or dogs may fight over territory.

Bathsheba, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 35 hours
Quote: “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.” ― Garrison Keillor
Reflection: Cats that have gone through cat abuse can show damage and be maimed on the outside.
Others show no sign of abuse on the exterior, but have emotional or internal damage on the inside.

Balthazar, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 44 hours
Quote: “The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures.
A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark.
I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming.
What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?” ― M.J. Rose, Seduction
Reflection: There are some species of owls out there that are threatened at this point in time
and they may not be able to survive for much longer.

Ivy & Varesh, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 47 hours
Quote: “I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond,
massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?” ― Sarah Monette, The Virtu
Reflection: Over 80% of marine pollution comes from human land-based activities.
Animals higher up the food chain, such as seals, can have contamination levels millions of times higher than the water in which they live.
And polar bears, which feed on seals, can have contamination levels up to 3 billion times higher than their environment.

Brutus, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 39 hours
Quote: Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can
in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such
a painful and prolonged death. It’s up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running
of the Bulls and bullfighting – Ingrid Newkirk
Reflection: Ernest Hemingway described bullfighting as “not a sport but a tragedy”, and accorded it the status of Art.

Unika, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 42 hours
Quote: “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.” ― Garrison Keillor
Reflection:
The Lioness is a good mother.
A Lioness is a strong and powerful creature.
The Lioness sets aside former limitations.
The Lioness helps those who falter.
The Lioness hunts with other lionesses.
The Lioness is stunning.
The Lioness has prowess.
The Lioness hunts in the dark.
The Lioness lives in the light.
Lionesses roar.

Sylvester, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 35 hours
Quote: I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great
Reflection: The lion population in Africa has been reduced by half since the early 1950s.
Today, fewer than 21,000 remain in all of Africa. Source WWF

Volker, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 36 hours
Quote: “I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal.
There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Reflection: I so want to share with you, my fellow humans, the beauty of the animals and the Earth.
To enjoy it together, marvel at it, be healed by it; be moved to treat the wonder of creation with great respect.

Sparkler, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2016 | Time to completion: 36 hours
Quote: Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we
may strive to attain. Douglas Coupland
Reflection: There are more human like qualities to birds than we think. Like us,
birds of different regions even have dialects. Breeding birds have disjunct populations, and generations
of these birds return to the same geographic locations each spring to nest.

Pigletino, From Animalia Part of Whimsical Kingdom Series.
Medium: Digital | Year: 2017 | Time to completion: Coming soon
Quote: Coming soon
Reflection: Coming soon

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