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By this point in the summer, I normally would have visited Woodland Park Zoo several times, but
for whatever reason, it’s been off my radar this year. I had heard that the
temperature would only get up to about 80 today (instead of 90 the last couple weeks),
so it was a good day to spend some quality time with animals.
Although the sketch doesn’t look like much, I was especially
tickled to catch the Asian small-clawed otters all piled up in a community nap.
Every other time I’ve seen them, they were chasing each other like squirrels –
impossible to sketch! The two-toed sloth was another animal I’d never sketched
before (my goal is to sketch every type of animal at Woodland Park at least
once).
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Whenever I get frustrated by animals that walk off before I can
finish, I take a walk through the Family Farm petting zoo, where the goats and
sheep are usually lethargically chewing cud – probably the easiest of all zoo critters
to sketch. And although I’ve sketched the hippo several times before, she’s impossible to resist.
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Sketching animals is such fun...especially if they cooperate and pose. I just love the hippo!!!
ReplyDeleteLove your zoo series. Animals do get up and leave when they feel like it. Great way of developing keen observation.
ReplyDeleteWonderful sketches. Sketching in a zoo looks to be a wonderful experience. Wish we had one here. --- Larry
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