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Quokka- moon landing

It’s the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this week.

Quokka, issue 676, July 16 2009- moon landing

Sculpture- painted quokka and yak

I got around to painting these sculptures from my clay class.
(click here for the pre-painted quokka)
(click here for the pre-painted yak)

I didn’t realise the acrylics would go glossy when they dried – saves me having to varnish them.

Quokka- cinema

This week’s cover features the art deco foyer of the Piccadilly Cinema in Perth.

It’s a lot of fun to put quokkas into movie posters…

Quokka- Abbey Road

I think Ringo looks good as a quokka- I only had to make the nose a little bigger. Here’s the original.

Since I started posting the quokka covers to this blog, I’ve done three that are references to famous images… I hope I’m not getting lazy 🙂

Quokka- End of Financial Year, Stonehenge

There’s two covers for the Quokka this week- one for a special ‘End of Financial Year’ wraparound, and one normal cover.

The one below is the first time I can remember using panels in my Quokka covers… the brief asked for lots of quokkas buying lots of stuff, including fridges, heaters, cars, houses, tools and couches. This was the easiest way I could think of to show all the required items at once.

Quokka, June 11 2009- End of Financial Year

This next one was fun- I got halfway through colouring it and started worrying that people might think that the quokkas were members of a strange cult. I meant them to be druids. The older one, stirring the potion in the cauldron, is a nod to the druid from my favourite comic series.