An entry into @juliakponsford's Art Explosion contest for week 80: https://steempeak.com/@juliakponsford/art-explosion-week-80-theme-spirit-animal-20-steem-pal-and-ccc-in-prizes. This week's theme is spirit animals.

For as long as I can remember my favourite animal has been the wolf. I really don't know why, but wolves tickle my fancy. So do turtles, frogs, and penguins (who doesn't like penguins), but wolves in particular have always been a favourite. So when I started to think of a spirit animal, the wolf came immediately to mind.

I really wanted to combine this particular creation - whatever it was to be - with something else I tend to enjoy. Now there are a lot of things that can, and do, fall into that category, but of late I have been really enjoying toys. Children's toys. Because I'm a child at heart. And also because I have children and, ergo, have a houseful of toys. So I began putting together an idea that I needed a picture of a wolf for.

The internet is good for free and royalty free clip art. A howling wolf was pretty easy to find. The difficult part was putting the toys together in its image.

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And then came the issue of putting it all together. It was slow, somewhat painstaking with more than a few instances of lego minifigs tumbling like dominoes. I did not snap pictures of those failures, not did I record my verbal reactions (and, as a result, do not need to tag this post NSFW). I do, however, have this snapshot of extra minifigs, pieces, and parts scattered everywhere. I feel like a lego vivisectionist.

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(c) Victor Wiebe

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