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DRAWINGS and BLACK CARD ART

Return to main Drawings pageDrawing: Wapparaburra

Date: 13 March 1998
Style: Black Card Art
Size: 22cm x 30cm
Series: Symbiosis
Setting: Great Keppel Island, Queensland, 1978
Mediums: Coarse black card, layered Derwent studio pencils, red and silver and gold ink

Wapparaburra is from the Symbiosis series.  Um, yeah, what can I say?  Wapparaburra is my favourite drawing ever and the inspiration for so much that followed.  Scorpio Rising, my "other" favourite drawing, was created from the same template.  I later painted a large canvas of the scene called Sanctuary.  The two drawings hang in my bedroom and the painting in one of my salons.  I receive offers for the painting every week but I'll never part with any of them.  Wapparaburra is a place on Great Keppel Island named for the traditional owners, the Woppa-burra people.

Wapparaburra, a drawing by Xavier T