Australian Koolie Collage
by Barbara Keith
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18.000 x 24.000 inches
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Title
Australian Koolie Collage
Artist
Barbara Keith
Medium
Mixed Media - Watercolor Enhanced Colored Pencil, Pastel, Acrylic And Gouache
Description
It once was common for Koolies to have one or two blue eyes, but since the DNA discovery linking blue eyes in Koolie to the merle gene, which creates blind/deaf pups, improved safer breeding practices with the encouraged merle to solid mating for the health of the breed and not the looks. We have seen a decline in blue eyed Koolies. The common eye colour today is brown eyes for reds and brown or black eyes for blacks, and tones of these two primary colours, occasionally you can still get blue eye(s), or part thereof, like chips, crescent even half but it is no longer common. Australian Koolie colours can be red or blue merle( patterned); solid (one colour) red/chocolate or black; bi (two colours) red and white, black and white, black and tan, red and tan; tricolor (three colours) including merle, normally with tan points and a white chest spot. Coat lengths come in smooth, short, short rough, medium, double coated or single, with feathers on their legs or without; long coats are not common (dogbreedinfo.com).
Completed in 2019 after 62.43 hours spread over 35 days.
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January 11th, 2020
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Comments (19)
Sarah Batalka
Beautiful work, Barbara! Such beautiful dogs! I've never heard of Kooloies before- your description was fascinating to read. They remind me of Australian Shepherds, which also have beautiful eyes. Also, I love what you've done with the vibrantly colored background! L/F
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