Original Acrylic: "Darkling Forest Moonlight" Wilderness Landscape Step into New Zealand's bush world with this evocative image that captures the night-time play of light and shade in a forest clearing. From a shadowy foreground you can look across a brilliant shaft of moonlight falling on the forest floor to a stand of young Kauri trees on the far side of the clearing. Moonlight picks out the branches of the foreground trees and falls in bright patches on the forest floor below them. There is quite a lot of activity in our NZ forest world at night-time. Our Demon Dragons - the New Zealand Wetas - are likely to be out looking for a feed as will be the Morepork (the New Zealand Owl) and the Kiwi - both nocturnal birds. Snails and insects, maybe bats and mice go about their business of searching for food. Unfortunately, probably the most noise will be made by the Opossum, introduced from Australia, which will be out munching leaves and fruits. Opossums are a real danger to our forests and control is an ongoing thing. It used to be that quite a good income could be made by trapping possums but all that has changed and Government control measures now concentrate on poison, which is not the ideal solution. Acrylic on Board. Sketch for a larger work. Overall size 6.5" x 8.5". Sold - Hamilton NZ. I am looking at painting this picture again, and if I do, you will be able to buy Cards, Giclee Prints and Framed Prints of this work see sample below: Site Home | Landscape Art | Forest Art | Botanical Art | Wildlife Art | About Me   All Art, photographs and text on this site is Copyright © 2010 Patricia Howitt. All rights reserved. Website by Busy People Web.Com