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Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

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I have always liked the story of the Thylacine and had always wanted to paint them. After writing an essay about them at uni I decided to start painting them, as I cannot find many artworks of them myself.
I started with using acrylic paint as a sketch, then used sepia tones to fill in the canvas until the canvas is completely covered in browns and yellows.
My main colours I used were Spectrum Green Light, Indian Pink, Magenta, Yellow Ochre, Prussian Blue and Magenta. I used a variety of paint brands such as W & N and Art Spectrum; and used a low-toxin Landridge Odourless Paint thinner to thin my paints.
The image has also been varnished using the Landridge Varnish.

Because the Tasmanian Tiger (or Thylacine) is extinct, I will never know if my painting of one is accurate or not; as no colour photographs or colour videos remain. Even though there are plenty of stories out there saying that they still exist, my belief is that we may never know what they would look like. We can always use our imagination to believe we have made a accurate picture within our minds.

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Stretched and ready to hang

This artwork is currently stretched and ready to hang.

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