Raspberry Doodles

This drawing provided me with a new challenge as the skin of this monkey is not something I have tackled before. I love this little character though and hope you do too.

Fudge is a male javan langur. He has a shiny bright orange coat and wakes up most mornings with a ‘bad hair day’. I know how he feels! Fudge is one of the residents at the Isle of Wight Owl and Monkey Haven and was definitely my favourite ….. I think This is the photograph [...]

It has been difficult to post progress on this drawing this week as the signal here is pretty awful. I have had a wonderful week taking lots of photographs to draw later though and I am looking forward to sharing them with you. I have finished this latest drawing though and I am happy to [...]

I thought this drawing was going to progress quickly like the tiger did but, so far, we have had a false start and a slooooooooow start. The second session has brought better results and I am now starting to enjoy this drawing. I have also had the excitement of picking up Hamish from the framers [...]

I have had two attempts at starting this new portrait but I hope it was worth it. Meet Chiquita. She is a Jaguar who was the victim of illegal animal trade and rescued from a garage!! She is beautiful, living and playful and I love her. You can see her spirit and I am so [...]

I love drawing with coloured pencils. I love that I can take my work anywhere I go. I can curl up on the sofa with my drawing board on my knee, sit in the garden on pack up and go to the beach (not in this weather) What I don’t love is that they are [...]

Made some more progress on this drawing. The challenge with this drawing is to find the character with no eyes to draw you in. The strength in most of my work is on the eyes but what can you do when there are no eyes to be seen? How about a big, delicious pink nose [...]