Heinz-Peter Bader/ReutersGiant Panda Yang Yang uses finger paint and a brush to create a picture at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 10, 2018 .

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There’s a painting panda at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo and her abstract artwork is selling for more than $500 a pop.

Yang Yang uses black paint with white backgrounds, which seems to be a favorite color scheme for the zoo’s giant panda.


Heinz-Peter Bader/ReutersGiant Panda Yang Yang holds a brush behind pictures it painted at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 10, 2018.

With a zookeeper acting as her easel, the panda creates minimalist splotch art reminiscent of the American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.


Heinz-Peter Bader/ReutersGiant Panda Yang Yang uses finger paint and a brush to create a picture at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 10, 2018.

One hundred of her adorable pieces will be sold online for around $560 each to fund a picture book about the Vienna zoo’s pandas.


Heinz-Peter Bader/ReutersGiant Panda Yang Yang uses finger paint and a brush to create a picture at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 10, 2018.

Yang Yang, 18, has given birth to 5 pandas, with one set of twins over the years.


Heinz-Peter Bader/ReutersGiant Panda Yang Yang uses finger paint and a brush to create a picture at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 10, 2018.