$135.00
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
Framed original ink drawing of a girl and her pet parrot, all loose brushstrokes, splatter and quiet affection.
Some connections need no words. In this original ink drawing from Running Duck Studio, a young girl with wild, wind-tossed hair leans toward the parrot perched at her side, and the whole scene seems to hold its breath. The bird tilts its head the way parrots do when they are waiting for praise, chest out, eye bright, while the girl’s tangled hair suggests she has only just run in from outside to say hello. It is a small, private moment between a child and her pet, caught in black ink before it could slip away.
The drawing is worked entirely in black ink on white, and that contrast does the quiet heavy lifting. Gestural brushstrokes sweep through the girl’s hair and the parrot’s tail feathers, thick where the brush pressed down and dry-edged where it lifted, so you can almost replay the movement of the artist’s hand. Bold splatters scatter across the paper like water shaken from feathers mid-flap. Rather than tidy outlines, the piece trades in energy. Some marks are dark and certain, others barely graze the surface, and together they keep the parrot alive against the stillness of the page.
Like every Running Duck Studio original, this piece was drawn by hand in Queensland, Australia. Ink is an unforgiving medium. There is no rubbing out a line once it lands, so every stroke you see was committed to in a single pass, which is exactly where the drawing gets its nerve. The finished work arrives framed and ready to hang, an original in the truest sense, complete with the small quirks and happy accidents that make hand-inked artwork impossible to reproduce.
This one belongs with people who know that pets are family. Hang it in a child’s bedroom, a reading corner or a hallway where it can catch passers-by, or give it to the bird lover who talks to their parrot more than they talk to most humans. The monochrome palette settles comfortably into any colour scheme, from coastal whites to darker, moodier walls, and the story it tells never gets old: a girl, her bird, and the easy trust between them.
Who’s a Pretty Bird, Girls pet parrot love
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
