Original Artwork by Running Duck Studio
Welcome to the Running Duck Studio gallery — original hand-inked drawings by Australian artist Danielle B Latta. From bold wildlife portraits to tender family moments, each piece tells a story in elegant black and white.
Browse the full collection below, or use the category filters to find your perfect piece. Every artwork is an original — once it’s sold, it’s gone forever.
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Box Brownie Moments, vintage
From $189.00
41 × 33 cm
About This Piece Box Brownie Moments captures the essence of an intimate encounter frozen in time. Two figures sit c...
Charlie Chaplin’s Vintage Moments
From $439.00
83 × 47 × 2 cm
About This PieceThe bowler hat, the cane, the slight lean that says he is about to shuffle off somewhere. Charlie Cha...
You Are Mine, and I Am Yours
From $190.00
31 × 39 × 2 cm
About This PieceThere is a moment every horse person knows. The work is done, the paddock has gone quiet, and you lea...
Fur Baby Express
From $120.00
26 × 31 × 2 cm
About This Piece Some cats tolerate the pram. This one has clearly decided to commit. Fur Baby Express is an origina...
Freedom
From $290.00
46 × 33 × 1.5 cm
About This PieceFreedom began with a loaded brush and no way back. Black ink on white paper leaves nothing to hide be...
Turbulence
From $290.00
46 × 34 × 1.5 cm
About This PieceTurbulence is an original ink painting of a horse caught in the act of turning, head swung round, man...
Gumtree Winds
From $539.00
77 × 57 × 2 cm
About This PieceGumtree Winds catches a Laughing Kookaburra at the exact moment the weather turns. The bird grips its...
Searching For Self
From $425.00
57 × 47 × 2 cm
About This PieceThere is a moment, just before an answer arrives, when a face gives everything away. Searching For Se...
Blue Eyed Winds
From $190.00
41 × 34 × 1 cm
About This PieceBlue Eyed Winds catches a blue-eyed Corella at the exact moment the air takes over. Wings raised, bod...
Power & Perception
From $239.00
46 × 46 × 2 cm
About This PiecePower & Perception holds a single suspended moment: a horse, all height and muscle, pauses over a...
Shake Your Groove Thing
From $290.00
39 × 32 × 1 cm
About This PieceThere is a split second in every good dance where thinking stops and the body takes over. Shake Your ...
Seaside Elegance
From $425.00
46 × 56 × 2 cm
About This PieceTwo women in long Edwardian dresses and wide bonnets walk the shoreline, a small child at each hand. ...
Crazy Days
From $590.00
83 × 58 × 2 cm
About This PieceCrazy Days is what happens when an emu refuses to hold still. The bird charges across the paper from ...
Country Freedom
From $525.00
68 × 53 × 2 cm
About This PieceThere is a split second in a kangaroo's bound where the whole animal hangs in the air, tail streaming...
Emotional Damage
From $435.00
57 × 47 × 2 cm
This dynamic ink artwork captures the unmistakable energy and character of an emu in motion, with sweeping brushstrok...
Whispers on the Winds
From $425.00
53 × 43 × 2 cm
Elegant ink artwork capturing the quiet bond between two horses, their forms rendered with fluid lines that convey bo...
Woof
From $190.00
35 × 42 × 1.5 cm
This expressive black ink drawing captures the alert presence and quiet dignity of a dog through bold, spontaneous br...
Easterly Winds
From $229.00
46 × 34 × 1.5 cm
This powerful ink artwork captures the commanding presence of a bird of prey through bold, expressive strokes that em...
Black Beauties
From $345.00
49 × 36 × 1.5 cm
This striking ink artwork captures a pair of native birds in a moment of quiet companionship, their forms emerging th...
Testing the Waters
From $225.00
42 × 24 × 1 cm
This evocative ink artwork captures a quiet moment of connection between a woman and a cat, expressed through fluid l...
Breathe
From $290.00
49 × 37 × 1.5 cm
This evocative ink artwork explores the connection between the human spirit and the natural world, with a raven poise...
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Art That Captures the Soul of Animals and the Moments We Cherish
Drawing for Walt Disney in the past means there is a residual hint of cartoon style in most works created by the Running Duck Studio artist. This cartoon style allows for a story to be told within each artwork. No faces are so you can find yourself in a story that resonates with you. Capturing those special fleeting moments in a forever memory piece of art for that warm feeling just when you need it.
Do you have a favourite animal? or pet that is your best mate?
Creating animal drawings is a passion that stems from deep in my upbringing and life experiences. I lived on a hobby farm with every animal you could possibly think of, but not only that. My mum was also the drop-in point for abandoned wildlife. So I was also raised with baby emus, kangaroos, possums and even a fox.
I remember one story where my dad was called to town, and there in the middle of the town roundabout, stood a fully grown emu. It was Eeny, one of our emus, einy Meeny miney and mo, that we had released a few years earlier.
Now such was the connection, and recognition, between animal and human that dad was able to pick this fully grown wild animal up and put it in the back of the land cruiser. Not a trailer, in the car, with us kids eyeballing it from the back seat.
So I learned at an early age about the strong connections that can develop not only with the animals we surround ourselves with but also with wildlife. This awareness helps me create emotive black and white drawings of animals
The Art of Black and White
The colour black is considered elegant yet understated, so I am able to keep the focus on the subject in a way that is not confronting but purposeful.
Black and white drawings create a more intense mood than colour, making it more emotional. An emotional response to any artwork is rewarding to its creator and the audience. The artwork becomes more than just a pretty picture; its value is reflected in its owner.
Visually black and white drawings work in any home decor to help create a timeless feature that will never go out of style.
Is black and white even a colour?
If black is a combination of colours and as such, it is not a colour itself. White is described as the absence of colour… So does that mean black and white drawings do not exist?
In physics, a colour is visible light with a specific wavelength. Black and white are not colours because they do not have specific wavelengths. Instead, white light contains all wavelengths of visible light. Black, on the other hand, is the absence of visible light. Seattlepi
What artist is known for his black and white paintings??
This is one of the most searched questions on the internet. My question is, why was the go-to search for a male? I would say partly because women were not allowed the same access to art education as men in the past. Hence, less well-known female artists, so the go-to search is “him”.
I am happy to say the Running Duck Studio artist is a “her”. Danielle B Latta has won several art awards and sold well over 1000 black and white drawings. There are three tiers to Danielle’s artwork,
- Large gallery pieces, usually Australian and other wildlife animal drawings,
- Smaller pieces that are considered art for the people. Keeping original art accessible to all and usual small animal and special moment illustrative works.
- Functional art. For those with no wall space and who have fallen in love with artworks that have already been sold