It's a Zoo at the Zoo

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• It's a Zoo at the Zoo: Complex Organisms

  This blog shows my artistic process from an image, to what that image inspires, to the creation of paintings, collages, prints, etc.

• It's a Zoo at the Zoo: Colored Embryo

  Colored Embryo Color Embryo #1, watercolor on paper, copyright Nina Leung, 2017  I love the idea of cells reproducing on their own and creating new life or different life. This is what I imagine it l...

• It's a Zoo at the Zoo: About

  About My greatest enjoyment as a child was visiting my Grandmother Rosemary's house. The entire house was a cabinet of curiosities waiting to be explored. Bookshelves filled with large monographs, f...

• It's a Zoo at the Zoo: February 2017

  Magnolia bloom with kangaroo paw in the background. I've been spending a lot of time in our garden lately. Spring is almost here and for the first time since we moved into this house 6 years ago, I f...

• It's a Zoo at the Zoo: Interpretations of The Rose

  Socotra Flower, copyright Nina Leung, 2013 I tried to mimic the atmosphere of The Rose in these paintings and drawings. They are inspired by Jay DeFeo's remarkable painting and the other images and s...

• It's a Zoo at the Zoo: The Thing in the Forest

  The Thing in the Forest, watercolor, copyright Nina Leung, 2017   "It's head appeared to form, or become first visible in the distance, between the trees. Its face-which was triangular-appeared like ...