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“Pandas” by Peter Parnall
Limited Edition Signed Print: 119/1500
Published in 1989
Image Size: 35.25”w x 16.25”h
Selling Price: $150.00
Artist’s Comments: Few animals are as rare and as loved as pandas. When I decided on pandas for a subject, I looked at how the Chinese have painted them over the centuries. I tried to capture the special feel of traditional pen and ink brushwork by using a soft pen line and choosing a tree as a focal point of the scene. Many traditional Chinese paintings centered on the gnarly kind of pine tree I've placed in Pandas, and here the tree is an essential part of the work - it's a temporary den for the mother panda and her cub. Pandas will often use a hollowed-out tree for dry, fairly comfortable shelter. In this case, it's also a convenient scratching post!
About the Artist: Peter Parnall became interested in the land and its creatures as a boy. His early memories are of stagecoach stops in the Mojave Desert and Texas’ Big Bend country. Here wild things are children’s playmates – coyotes, lizards. Peter and his friends exchanged rattlesnake rattles instead of baseball cards. Parnall’s special fascination is with animal behavior. He has raised and studied dozens of wild creatures – hawks, owls, and raccoons. And so it is that his drawings portray not only the look of bird or beast, but the animal’s essential nature – shy, bold, predatory, secretive.
Peter Parnall has illustrated over 50 books, some of which he has also authored, and has won many awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His drawings are described as striking, stunning, attention riveting. Their special nature resides in the artist’s uncanny ability to portray the forest world as the birds and animals themselves might experience it. The viewer suddenly knows how it feels to be a hunter, how it feels to be hunted, and is led into a deeper understanding of the inexorable world of nature.
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