21. What research did you do?

No.	Artist	Country	Response
4, 30, 245, 246	Jan Abbotts	Aust	Checked out the Aust Zoo web site. The cheetah face that I did was from a photo of Cleo on the web site. Then it was just a general zoom around the stained glass sites.
12, 13	Janelle & Kirra Csurhes	Aust	Had wanted to do this project for some time. It just seems right to do a colourful character as a tribute to Steve Irwin.
19, 101, 106, 123, 176, 180, 181	Donna Coogan & Family	USA	Donna (mosaic artist) - I spent a lot of time googling the creatures my family wanted to mosaic to find a drawing they liked. I read about Eastern Gray Squirrels on the Internet. John (husband) - I wanted a butterfly that looked like it was flying. The biggest research was locating an appropriate picture to use as a starting point. Nipping tile was a new experience also. I just had to practice that for a while. Seth (19yo) – none Laryssa – (17yo) I looked at a statue of a flamingo that I own. Cory (12yo) - I looked at the back of a box turtle I found in the yard. They have 4 orange spots. Shane (9yo) – Comment by Donna - we researched black racer snakes when we saw one in the yard over a year ago, so already knew quite a bit about them – it was Shane’s inspiration, because he remembered being the first one to spot it in the yard. They coil and rattle their tail just like a rattlesnake when they feel threatened. It even sounds like a rattle snake (we heard it!).
25, 26	Carolyn Crawford	USA	Books and the internet.
29	Valerie Fuqua	USA	I had to spend a lot of time studying toucan’s feet.
34	Nancy Neubauer	USA	Lots of internet searching to find just the right poses I was looking for.
78	Hilde Hader	Canada	National geographic, computer.
87, 88	Karen & Laura Apolloni	USA	Looked at photos of echidnas, made practice drawings, and talked about how they should look.
150	Peggy L. Brown	USA	Books and internet.
167	Jan Stiffler	USA	Looked up photo of ant on internet.
179	Christine Brallier	USA	I went to the Australia Zoo web site and looked for the animal with the most personality and found this beautiful animal with the sweetest expression and most loving gaze!
183, 184	Linda L Phillabaum	USA	Internet, and local Library.
193, 209	Dianne Schnarr	New Zealand	I started looking through books here at home on wildlife as well as referring to ancient Greek mosaics. I checked the internet but he most inspiring bit of information came from a photo in the March 2007 National Geographic. Photographer Michael Nichols set up cameras for animals to take self-portraits and there was a great pic of a crocodile’s tail – very prehistoric.
199	Christine McKenzie	New Zealand	Google Images search – “cheetah” +art, +diagram, +outline, +colour, +fur, +mosaic – interestingly there was only one cheetah mosaic to be found, a Byzantine marble mosaic. Then images saved into folder, the images printed off 4 to an A4 page for inspiration, details.
202	Carolyn and Anna Talarr	USA	Carolyn - Lots on cougars in general to see what coloration was universal and what was peculiar to Malina. Anna - Almost none, but I did use WolfQuest for the colors.
206	Liz Brazelton	USA	I went to the zoo’s web site also the blog for the mural.
210, 211	Caroline Kovacs	Aust	I read lots of crocodile books and googled many articles on crocodiles.
212, 215	June Johnstone	Aust	National Geographic is a wonderful book and has lots of great pictures
213	Sandy Ozols	Aust	Bought a simple book on how to draw, watched documentary’s on animals or watch them . Used my own photos as references.
233	Denny Nkemontoh	USA	First, a lot of time online reading about echidna’s and printing off pics. Then, looking at the vet’s books.
235	Michelle Curow (aka Dotty Marzipan)	Canada	No research, just google images for a good picture of a beaver that showed good colouring.
236	Dotti Stone	USA	Google images – I have lots of pictures of cockatoos I took during a visit to Australia, but needed more for this.
239	Deborah Boyd	USA	I did go online and look up the Australia Sea Turtles. I am very familiar with Sea Turtles in the US and wanted to learn more about the one's in Australia. I found they are very much the same.
240, 241, 242, 243, 244	Lynne Mosiman	USA	I looked at many pictures of Australian fur seals, I picked the brains of other mosaic artists on how to achieve the shading, and I looked at mosaics that had shading to see how they’d done it.
247, 248	Tracey Holland (mrsdutchy)	Aust	Searched the internet and Flickr! for pics of mosaic crocs. Couldn’t find much so that’s when I asked Caz Kovacs if I could copy hers which she was more that happy for me to do.
250	Wendy Clayton-Langley	USA	Check books and websites.
249, 251	Maria Kokkoris	Aust	Internet images.
	Berta Sergeant	USA	I researched Australian butterflies, and then, I did my own versions….
	Carol Shelkin	USA	I asked a bundle of questions and received many supportive and beneficial answers from, Sandy and Kathy (Maryland Mosaics).