A zebra was the inspiration for this. The brown areas in the upper left and lower right are supposed to be hooves, the two small, blue areas are the eyes (I actually don't have any idea if zebras have, or can have, blue eyes and I don't really care), and the red area is the mouth. Of course, nobody would ever know that this was modeled off of a zebra, but that was my idea behind the black and white striping and the splashes of color. This piece is long and short enough that I think it looks nice hanging in a hallway.
Pieces like this are ridiculously fun to paint - just a palette and a brush and an afternoon slinging paint. It's pretty much impossible to make a mistake painting something like this. That freedom is amazing.
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