Opossum "Precious Cargo" Original Watercolor Painting

Introducing for the first time ever on the Wild Planet Creations website, and one of Samantha's favorite paintings of hers to date, "Precious Cargo" featuring a mother opossum piggy backing her...well, her precious cargo. Opossum are the only marsupials native to the United States, which means the young start their lives in their mother's pouch. In the opossum's case, they leave the pouch and hang out on their mother's back until they get too big and fall off. Samantha created this painting to showcase that mother opossum (and all opossum) face many human-induced challenges, one of which is crossing busy and dangerous roads.

This painting is 9" x 13" in size and comes matted as well as framed. Samantha hand-selected the mat board and frame to really make this painting stand out. The hanging hooks are already installed to make decorating your home with this piece a breeze.

It took a full 3 weeks for Samantha to complete this incredibly detailed painting. She focused heavily on the perspective of the painting to make sure the vanishing point on the horizon, the mother opossum in the foreground, and everything in between look like they are in the right position, giving depth to the scene. She also focused on the use of light, which is incredibly vibrant and colorful during a sunset. Samantha primarily used Winsor and Newton professional series watercolor tube paints on cold press, acid free, 300 gsm  Blick watercolor paper. She hand signed the front of the painting as well as the back (which she also dated with the year this painting was created - 2024). 

Samantha is more than happy to hand deliver this painting right to your front door! (as long as you reside within 100 miles of her art studio location). Otherwise, she will ensure pristine delivery via a custom made and well-insulated ULINE box. The painting will also come with a hand signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity with gold detailing and placed in a high-quality certificate folder.

Any watermarks on the photographs used in this listing are purely to ensure that someone (or AI) does not steal the artwork illegally. The watermarks do not exist on the actual painting. Also, the resolution of the photos used in this listing is much lower than the actual painting! In other words, the painting's details are crisp and vivid compared to some of the photographs here (Shopify doesn't allow image files above a certain size).

With your official adoption of this painting, Wild Planet Creations will donate 10% of all profits to wildlife conservation organizations! This means $210 will be donated from the purchase of this painting! Thank you for your contribution to wildlife conservation!