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24.01.2022 Trying to pull my portfolio together for Scholastic Australia submissions. Feeling the inner turmoil of the artist and like the flying Banshee of motherhood but have pumped out one or two artworks this fortnight. This one is my little mate who is a huge Croc fan.

24.01.2022 Well, I know is November but I am still mosy-ing along in Inktober. I have found so much joy in researching, drawing and sharing, thank you for viewing/commenting/enjoying. If you are on Instagram you can find me there too @emmalongillustration. Baby laughing kookaburra.

23.01.2022 I have a few mates who have marvelled at how I find the time to draw with four kids and the truth is is that it has taken me four kids to get my priorities sorted. I draw when I am 'meant' to be cleaning the house, I draw when I am 'meant' to be doing a million meaningful activities with my kids afterschool but let them fend for themselves instead and I draw when Ben is home and doing a million meaningful activities with the kids because it is not my job alone to fulfill thei...r needs. I've realised that as much as having a dirty house can shit me to tears, if I am not drawing I am overly anxious and I'd rather live like the monkeys we are than with constant anxiety. I know that not everyone has the same life or opportunities as me but if you really are really feeling the lack of your creative outlet then the big thing I have learned on my life journey so far is to figure out what shitty, inconsequential societal expectations you are still clinging to (oh my god what will people think of my character if I don't fold all my washing Marie Condo style every day! Will facs come and take my children!??! If my house is dirty does that mean I am?!) (ok slightly meladramatic but you get my drift) and let. them. go. Like this puggle, just let it all go. See more

23.01.2022 Sleeping Babies. Connecting to country - wild hearts.

23.01.2022 Save the Sharks. Used a stunning reference photo from shark conservationist Mike Cootes, doesn't do the photo justice but I loved the subject and learning about these Beautiful Creatures.

22.01.2022 Gouldian Finch or winged jewels.

22.01.2022 Inktober - Gouldian finch.

21.01.2022 Crested Jacana. Procrastinating, need to draw some bush edible plants but can't seem to move away from birds...

20.01.2022 Following on from my previous post!

19.01.2022 Intober - Humphead Cichlid.

18.01.2022 Lord Howe Long Eared Bat - critically endangered.

18.01.2022 The drawing has taken a bit of a backseat while I have been painting rocks this week for my dad's shop - Rockalong Stonework - in Kununurra. The rock is beautiful on its own but provides a lovely 'canvas' for some native (and naturalised) flora & fauna illustrations. It has inspired me to start painting story stones again so watch this space.

17.01.2022 Inktober - mini art work experiment - Night Parrot.

17.01.2022 We've just had another beaut South East coast holiday with the family - so sad to leave. This year a lovely couple opened their house to us so we had a little home base for the kids to spread out in. On the 3rd of Jan I took some time to draw a little thank you card for them.

17.01.2022 Inktober - Yellow Faced Turtle - adventures at Croc Cove.

16.01.2022 I have so much on I think my head might actually just implode... Paintings for my dad's rock shop in Kununurra.

15.01.2022 The lightboxes are live! So happy to be included in this lovely exhibition with 9 other fabulous Darwin artists! Here is my queen green ant with work from Polly Johnstone and Jo Green. If you are strolling around Nightcliff any time in the next few months be sure to pop down for a swim and check it out! The other glorious works are on display in The Mall and Chinatown.

15.01.2022 This was going to be a toilet seat design but it got a bit flash. We have a crew of bats hanging out in the Carpentaria palms in our pool yard. They are pretty awesome despite the guano. I have distinct memories of early morning fishing down at Katherine Low level bridge with my dad and watching hundreds of bats rustle in the trees on the river bank.

14.01.2022 Boabs. Driving across the Vic Highway, getting closer to the border you see these trees standing bulbously (an actual word?) in the scrub.

14.01.2022 Inktober - An Ocean Adventure. Moving a little into a fantasy journey for this one. I seem to be favoring very colourful critters at the moment! Flabellini Rubrolineata.

13.01.2022 Castle Stalker - obsessed with all things Scotland - this was a great study for my first castle drawing. Due to a full life (the good, the bad and the meh) it took me two and a half weeks but I am now oddly attached to it even though I have never been there.

13.01.2022 The latest Living Planet report claims that if we continue to live/waste/consume the way that we are, two thirds of the world's wildlife will be gone by 2020. It is only two years away. Big eared hopping mouse - native to Australia - extinct. Remember what we have lost.

12.01.2022 Dugong - Sea Cow - Australia is the Dugong hot-spot, globally they are considered vulnerable. We have an estimated 80,000 along our tropical coastline.

12.01.2022 Coming to a lightbox near you... Well, near Nightcliff pool anyway. Super excited to have my work selected as a part of the lightbox series 'Art & Adaptation' curated by my friend, colleague and wonderful printmaker Fernanda Dupal. Opening tomorrow night in Darwin City.

09.01.2022 So many things going on but not too many I can show yet so here is a small, ruddy gosling inspired by Olivier Dunrea's Gideon. Who would have thought baby Magpie Geese would be quite this bright and cute.

08.01.2022 Frangipani at Ruby-G's.

08.01.2022 Bitterly sad and beautiful. Millions of exquisite creatures harvested, dried and sold on as human fodder, traditional medicine. Yet I will in my hypocrisy devour prawns by the bowlful. Hash tag pescatarian guilt. @emmalongillustration

05.01.2022 Tales from the Pouch - my own version of story stones. The first pouch will be filled with little bits of Kakadu like the Northern Quoll and Four O'clock moth I have posted here.

04.01.2022 Four O'clock Moth - Kakadu - Litchfield.

04.01.2022 Magpie Goose on Okapi rock. This one is heading over to Rock a Long stonework in Kununurra WA, ready for the 2019 tourist season.

03.01.2022 Mountain Pygmy Possum - south east coast Australia - endangered.

03.01.2022 Inktober - Day 6 - Whitelegge's Pinwheel Snail Endemic to Lord Howe Island - only found at high altitudes - critically endangered.

02.01.2022 Saturday was world numbat day. These are Beautiful Creatures and endangered.

02.01.2022 Website update complete! It has been a few years since I have had a functional website and I am happy to say I am enjoying the simplicity of it. Please share if you like my work! I will have more poster designs up in the next few days. emmalongillustration.com