They’re like baked potatoes with a smile
I love making art, and the stubby, tubby body shape of wombats makes them fun to draw in any environment. I saw wombats in the wild at Cradle Mountain in central Tasmania, so I tend to draw jagged mountains and trees, but wombats also live in arid climates and grassland.
Wombats go wild in New York
I took my wombat Slurpy to New York City. We went to a hat-making workshop and so I made a wombat fascinator. I also went to the Museum of Natural History and found a huge skeleton from a prehistoric wombat.
Wombats in unexpected places
Everywhere I go, I’m on the lookout for wombats. Once, I was watching the Marvel superhero movie Ant Man and he suggests working with his old team. Michael Douglas says: “Not those three wombats. No way!”
You can even try decorating with wombats. I think they elevate the look of this guest room, don’t you?
How I got my own wombat
Meet Slurpy and Slash. Mom bought Slurpy, the larger one, at a koala sanctuary in Brisbane where I saw my first live wombat. I was instantly hooked. I got Slurpy for Christmas—three months after that first visit.
Slash came six months later, just in time to be a good-luck gift before my soccer tournament. Slash is very soft and Slurpy has more compact, bumpy fur due to a very bad incident in the dryer that we don’t want to talk about.