HOME | DD
amyhooton — Gumnut Babies
Published: 2007-11-16 17:23:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 3086; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
Painted this as a gift for Benjamin's Aunt. I thought she would like a picture of some gumnut babies. Australia's equivilant to Beatrix Potter cuteness. No one has heard fo them in the UK, but they are very popular in Oz I've been told. Link ---> [link] is May Gibb's picture I took this from.Acrylic Inks and gold pen. November 2007
Did a bit more work on the golding last night. I wanted to make the gum tree bark look more like skin.
GIFT FOR A FRIEND
Related content
Comments: 37
What's a gumnut baby? Sounds like a lolly. LOL. Cool colours, not too cutesy.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This picture is so dreamlike.. it looks like tiny woods spirits, it that what they are?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Well I'm not entirely sure exactly what they are. Little spirits that live in the gumnut trees in Australia. Well I shall soon find out! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Sooooooooo sweeeeet and like always unique, like u can, like u do, like u feel and u can always touch us with your style 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
You just keep these coming, don't ya?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
the true romantic theme! I get a positive feelings from this picture! the center of pic is a very cool, especially a yellow spot!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks Dmitry! by yellow spot, d'you mean the sun?! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie! Yeah theyre pretty famous here, I grew up on those books. Beautiful piece. I love your work on the tree and bark.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Love it! A vivid imagination and beautifully turned out!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
This is very nice
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
If you have any further interest in Australian children's books and great drawings, check out 'The Magic Pudding' by Norman Lindsay....I don't think you'd be disappointed...it's another classic.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Ben's Mum is a Norman Lindsay fanatic, so I will get her to show me this.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
'Snugglepot and Cuddlepie' is an Australian classic. I imagine when it was written it would have been known in the UK because during and before WWII Australia was still very much part of the British empire. I would imagine most Australians no longer know of the work either, sadly. It features 'Banskia men' as ogres and they terrified me as a child. I couldn't walk past a banskia tree without being frightened! I've always had an overactive imagination! Wonderful that you've created a work like this
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I'm really glad you like it. I shall soon be educated to the ways of Australia no doubt! So there may be a few more Aussie themes coming out in my work over the next few months!! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0