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| 7/2/14 Diamine Chocolate Brown ink, Sailor pen, Canson XL 140 lb. paper |
The sloth bears at Woodland Park Zoo are getting a new home next year, so this is the last
week they will be visible to the public until May 2015. I decided to make a
quick stop there on this sunny afternoon to get my last look at them for a
while.
Mama sloth bear and her two 18-month-old cubs are often
elusive critters, napping in their cave, so it’s always a treat to catch a
glimpse of them. Last summer when I sketched them, the cubs were still small enough to climb all over mom’s
back. But today I could hardly tell them apart from mom – they all looked the
same size! Their shaggy yet shiny black fur and fluffy shape are challenging to
sketch, but I tried to catch as many poses as I could (as if sloth bears would ever
pose for me!).
In the wild, less than 10,000 sloth bears remain. The two
cubs are the first to be born at Woodland Park Zoo since 2007.
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| 7/2/14 Diamine Chocolate Brown ink |
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| 7/2/14 Diamine Chocolate Brown ink |
Sad that they will be hidden from view for so long. Nice sketches of their different poses!
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