I made my piece through the eyes of my made up version of Franky Tagliano's cousin.
Franky now under the name of Giovanni Henriksen has followed in his cousins footsteps, by going in retirement.

Franky has sent his cousin some Photos of his new lovely home while his cousin is enjoying a nice one in australia.

some details on thes drawing.

1 The terrarium with red sand on the right as some australian honey ants, and a wooden koala statue on top of it.
2 there is a newspaper with netflix on the frontpage next to it.
3 on the table on the right there is an urn with the name opal on it. Giovanni has an urn of his dog lily. I named this one opal after the national gem of australia.
4 There are some aboriginal drawings on the bench under the window.
the right panel is a true aboriginal drawing, the front panel shows kublai khan on te left with a mongol warrior in front and sidao on the right with a song dinasty warrior in front.
5 above the window are 2 panels 1 with 2 kangaroos and 2 echidnas and the other with 2 platypus.
6 The map on the wall shows the earth upside down, Australia is centerd and on top.
7 You can see some eucalyptus and a nice sunrise.
8 Above the door stands: She'll be apples.

This is drawn on 160lb (too gritty for my liking) acid free paper
Pencils uced are: Faber Castell - Polychromos