Drawings

For some reason, well, I guess for obvious reasons, it took a while to start working with the images that I brought back with me---not only digitally, but in my mind, and heart. The beauty and power of Africa is almost overwhelming and can be intimidating, at least until I got started and lost all of that in the process. So, for the first week or so, thanks in part to severe jet lag, I found it difficult to do much of anything in my studio. When I finally got started, it just seemed right to stay with drawing for a while. So for the past month or so, I have been immersed in the purity of line and monotone rendering of animals. This is one of the Kalahari Black-Maned brothers, after a big meal.