A single plank of wood. Like a blank sheet of paper it can be the first cobblestone in an endless path of creative possibilities. Like a blank piece of paper, it's most likely going to be chucked in the bin.
Putting something together using instructions always causes unwarranted confusion and no small amount of mental anguish. It's much better to just stick everything together and hope it doesn't collapse, as our friend here seems to be finding out.
Despite a strong showing from the musk ox and the salmon, the stand-out animal from the previous 'O Canada' thingy was definitely the bear. The DYI bear, to be more precise. So here's a little bit more of him.
A typical Canadian scene. From left to right: moose, bear, manly Canadian man, peacock, salmon, musk ox, owl. Under the Canadian man's foot we see to platypuses (platypi?) and a toad. At the time of writing I have yet to visit Canada.
After a long time pondering if these were birds with luxuriant hair or birds with head feathers that bear an uncanny resemblance to hair, the only logical conclusion seems to be they are birds wearing wigs.
I spend an awful lot of time at work drawing, mainly when I should be paying attention to something else. I usually throw everything away with my notepads, so I thought that sharing it with a largely inexistent (and in weeks to come, I'm sure, unimpressed) audience would be a good way to save some of the stuff.