Drawings

     Well, Moholoholo provided an awful lot of opportunities for this rank amateur artist,  I can tell you!  Everywhere I looked, there was something begging to be drawn.  I vowed I would take a lot of photos and catch up when I got home, but that never feels as right as drawing the animals live and up close and personal.  
     I've been showing you stuff all along that I did, but here's a couple more.

 Kate, who is an employee at Moholoholo, loves all primates.  In fact, she is sorry that in general, Moholoholo does not keep any primates at the Center, but rather sends them off to specialized primate centers if one should come in.
      Bush babies ARE tiny primates.  To my eye, they look far more like an over-sized flying squirrel, and they're hardly bigger than that.  But they are an incredibly cute-looking little primate.  They're cuter to look at than anything else, though.  Since they are nocturnal, they're not much company for us daylight lovers.  Kate asked me to draw a bush baby for her, and here it is.  I left the original drawing with her.

Jamie requested that I do a drawing of her Ollie.  It turns out that rhinos are as easy to draw as elephants, all planes and shadows.  Here he is, vaguely contemplating a charge, just for fun.

When I got home, a friend gave me a book on how to use colored pencils, and I found out that you're actually supposed to use WATER when you're drawing with pencils.  It softens the lines and gives your stuff more of a watercolor look.  I liked the way it worked with this drawing of Bullet the Cheetah.

 

Though, of course, I had a special fondness for Bullet himself, having had so many memories of 

great meals of killer elephant meat with him.    Now, if I can just keep up with my drawings now that I'm actually home!