Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Penguin is made from a shimmery

is made from a shimmery Japanese paper

75 inches wide

while the trim is an Italian paper

This was the first time I layered my papers

The handbag is 4

Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Penguin is made from a shimmeryOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The