Latest zoo fieldwork

Glossy Ibis, sunbathing, Bic pen

Great white pelican, head study, Bic pen

Great white pelican, preening, Bic pen

Great white pelican resting, Bic pen

Great white pelicans doodles, Bic pen

Nicobar pigeon, Bic pen

Northern Bald Ibis, Bic pen

Rocky mountain goat, Bic pen

Various fieldwork close to my home

Carrion crow, Ostpark, Munich ,Bic pen

Feral pigeons, close to my home in Munich, Bic pen

Mallard doodles, Ostpark , Munich, Bic pen     

Robin singing, Ostpark , Munich, Bic pen

Wood pigeon, Ostpark, Munich, Bic pen

Bonelli`s eagle & Common kestrel studies

When time or weather conditions doesnt allow to make life-studies, I`m browsing through my own videos , where there is always something interesting to find..This time a Bonellis eagle female calling, and a common kestrel..

Bonelli`s eagle calling, the whole bird, Bic pen

Bonelli`s eagle calling, head detail, Bic pen

Common kestrel female, Bic pen

Our Guinea pigs

Not really wild , but nevertheless, interesting animals, Betty our first Guinea pig, sadly died few months ago, Bic pen

Our second Guinea pig, Franzi, a lovely animal, Bic pen

One more sketch fo Franzi, an older one... also drawn with Bic pen

Latest Fieldwork

Carp fish, Riesa zoo , Saxony  March 2013,Coloured pencils on tinted paper

Greylag goose, Ostpark Munich , March 2013, Bic pen

Eagle owl, Riesa zoo, Saxony, March 2013,Bic pen

Mallard drake, Ostpark Munich, April 2013, Bic pen

Red squirrel study, Munich, April 2013, Bic pen

Snow leopard studies

When  time and weather conditions doesn`t allow to go outdoors to sketch, I`m browsing through  video footage hoping to find an interesting posture or scene...The videos offer moving images which are mostly  not sharp enough but this is the challenge for an artist, to try to understand form and anatomy and "transfer " it in to a clear and attractive picture..

The female snow leopard streching

The male snow leopard cleaning himself

Tawny owl roost, Nymphenburg Schlosspark Munich

Tawny owl, this is the view I had looking through the telescope, Bic pen

Tawny owl up on  the tree, as it has been seen without the aid of a telescope

Doodles

Portrait of a young male Lion

A young male Lion study in Munich zoo, today morning, wasn`t easy at all...

Fishing cat, Mississippi Alligator, new Bic pen Zoo studies

 I`m visiting our Munich zoo as regularly as I can, and though it`s always risky  to make studies from alive animals, the fascination of being there, gives me the confidence to try my best despite any possible failure. In most of the cases  when  I`m returning back home with succesful studies like these ,the satisfaction I feel can`t be compared with any other  reward.

Fishing cat on lurking, Bic pen

Mississippi alligator resting