Three frogs on a branch.

Three seperately painted studies of the Australian green tree frog, Litoria caerulea, on a single branch running across all three panels. Self-initiated, made for no purpose beyond wanting to paint this animal and experimenting with a not-so-common medium for me: gouache.

What stays from the scientific work is the observation: proportions, the toe pads, the way weight hangs off a horizontal branch, the difference between a frog gripping and a frog resting. What goes is the labelling. The three panels are one continuous branch, so the set reads as a sequence rather than three separate portraits.