Art title: Bogul - Australian Bush Rat This is one of the many residence of our tiny back yard. Each evening my husband places a tray of seed out for them and the rats come out from their burrows and nervously feed. They have lived in our yard for about 5 years and raised many litters but have never offered to come into the house. Prior to them moving in we were always getting rats and mice from the local farmland inside each winter. Since they took up residence under our tadpole pond we have been rodent free indoors.
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This series of RAT images was recorded during the process of creating the artwork. Many times I get asked "How long do they take you?". Because I work digitally, and my original images are really large I am pushing the memory of my poor old computer to its limit and occasionally it crashes. I therefore learned to save the image at regular intervals at a very early stage of my digital development. The nice thing about digital documentation is that it automatically records time and date. I had a break to cook and eat tea with my family so I estimate approx 7 to 8 hours of obsessive work in this particular image. I find that a typical image takes approx 8 to 12 hours work once I have decided on the composition.
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