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Juvenile Southern Ground Hornbill, coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background. A3 sized, from my own photo taken in Artis Zoo Amsterdam.

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2023-03-26

The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you...
Pastels on Pastelmat
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2023-03-14

My first Hooded vulture drawing, from 2019 I believe. Coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background. Reference photo taken in Blijdorp Zoo.

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2023-03-13

More hands! Natural follow up on the last piece. One of the most significant hand scenes of the show in my opinion.
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pastel pencils on Pastelmat

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2023-03-08

Female Sulawesi wrinkled hornbill, coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background. A4 sized, reference photo taken in Avifauna birdpark.

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2023-03-04

I'm receiving a parcel from Canon today so hopefully it's my repaired scanner or a new one 🤷🏼‍♀️ From last year, critically endangered California condor, coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background, ref. Lara Strazdas (never seen one myself).

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2023-02-22

Done with this now. On pastelmat, about 11x9.

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2023-02-13

Nearly finished, just need to do a bit more work on the background. I decided to go wild and draw in some sort of jungle 😀 Female Sulawesi wrinkled hornbill, coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background. A4 sized, reference taken in Avifauna Birdpark

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2023-01-27

So this was on the infamous anthracite Pastelmat. When I look at this I think how on earth did I manage that 🤣 That paper had a few ugly patches but thankfully it worked out in the end. African lion, coloured pencils, pan pastel background. Reference Jamie MacArthur. 50 x 40 cm.

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2023-01-18

Sam. Nearly done now, the bottom part needs to be darker. Not easy drawing white stuff which isn't really white on whitish paper 😄 Coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background. A4 sized, reference taken at the Hawk Conservancy Trust.

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2023-01-14

Work in progress, A3 sized. I just had to draw the beautiful Dolores again. Prismacolor premier and Verithin coloured pencils on dark blue Pastelmat (I usually forget what the colour of the paper was once it's all covered in pencil 😀). There will be a pan pastel background.

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2023-01-12