Zebra running
Last weekend I began to make paintings of some of the stuff we saw in East Africa last month. First, I wanted to paint big yellow cats and I began with this one, Still hungry, of lionesses after an unsuccessful hunt in the Mara. I really enjoyed painting the zebras on the left of that [...]
Sketches from East Africa
As usual while on my travels I made a few sketches, though not as many as I would have liked. Here’s a few from our recent trip. This sketch is of the Ngorongoro crater, the largest complete caldera in the world. It is surely the real Eden. We stayed in a lodge on the crater’s [...]
A game drive at Lake Nakuru
The centrepiece of Kenya’s beautiful Lake Nakuru national park, is the lake itself, a soda lake which attracts thousands of flamingoes which feed off the algae living in the alkaline waters. Surrounding the lake are forests, open grasslands and other habitats, home to a stunning variety of fauna; we saw large herbivores (eland, buffalo, waterbuck, [...]
