Albino Bullfrog

How long will it hold still?

It’s the size of a plucked chicken, and about the same color.

Giant albino bullfrog, sketched pencil and white gouache.

It’s alive, it’s breathing, but otherwise motionless in a museum terrarium. It seems to be tracking me, even though its eye isn’t moving. I wonder how long it will stay still.

I draw him in pencil on gray mat board, and then apply a thin …