Showing posts with label Cincinnati Zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cincinnati Zoo. Show all posts

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Travel Fever and Zoo Sketches

Adorable, shell shocked baby fox
I went to the Cincinnati Zoo with Amy Bogard and Robin Ewers Carnes Friday to get some live sketching in on a beautiful day!

The animals were delightfully active and it was a good day to be out in peak fall color.

I was particularly obsessed with the baby gray fox above. He looked so new and vulnerable. He eventually curled up and had the pose my cat has when he is settling down with his ears in the owl position.

Our other favorites were the merekats, the lions, the African painted dogs and the Visayan warty pigs.

A composite of my sketches from my mini-sketchbook
We also saw the Sumatran Rhino before he leaves this Thursday for Indonesia.

He was pretty chill and enjoying a spa day in his mud bath...


Farewell Harry!
See all of our artwork here on the Cincinnati Illustrators Blog!


Wrestling lion cubs-too cute!


In other news, I am planning to go to Costa Rica the beginning of January. I am still playing the airfare chess game, so hopefully I can get a good deal. It would better be described as a shell game. I think the artificial intelligence that puts together these flight legs is some kind of sadist. It is a system designed to give you kind of what you are looking for but deliberately not.

I look forward to sketching there!







Monday, August 19, 2013

Trip to the Cincinnati Zoo and Other Animal Sketches


We saw these llamas in Missouri...
 I have a couple books about animals coming up, so I have been going to the zoo and other animal places to take pictures and sketch.

Sorry this is not a wordier post, I am still beyond swamped pretty much through the end of the year.


Snow leopard sketch from the Cincinnati Zoo… These are such weird cats. This one would come to the fence, touch it with both paws and chew on her left paw, limping off on the other three. At the Bronx Zoo a couple years ago, one was staring at the toddlers looking in by the fence and chewed on her tail… They seem to be frustrated by close but inaccessible prey.

A selection of ink gesture sketches...

Starting to think about bison??!!
And owls...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Sketching at the Cincinnati Zoo

The Reptile House
Amy Bogard and I went to the Cincinnati Zoo after this week's Illustrators Lunch to sketch for a little while. Here is a vine video: https://vine.co/v/b92etaJFUxL

Shockingly, we did not get stormed on!

Salmon Crested Cockatoo gestures

This painted turtle stared at us the whole time we drew him or her