SoHo Wallaby

It isn’t sufficient to seek wholeness through men, it never was and never will be for any woman, married or single.

Patricia O’Brien

SoHo Wallaby

3.5″ x 4.5″ SoHo Acrylics on Watercolor paper

I was trying to be a little looser with this wallaby. But of course, you can’t be too loose on such a small piece of paper. I did have a lot of fun with him tho.

Patricia O'Brien is an award-winning journalist, novelist and author of at least 7 books.

For ten years she worked as political correspondent and columnist in the Washington Bureau of the Knight-Ridder Newspapers. She covered the Reagan White House, Congress and the 1984 national political campaigns of Gary Hart and Geraldine Ferraro.

She went on to become press secretary for Michael Dukakis’ Presidential nomination campaign in 1987-88 and then was awarded a Freedom Forum Fellowship at Columbia University.

O’Brien began her career as a journalist in 1966 at The South Bend Tribune. She went on to the Chicago Sun Times as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. In 1973 she became a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard.

She has been a commentator for CBS-TV’s Morning Show, CBS-Radio’s Spectrum series, and hosted a local Chicago television public affairs program. She has written for a number of magazines, from Harper’s Bazaar to Esquire, including reviews for the New York Times Sunday book section.