Illu-Art – Scootsie Creations

The following are hand-drawn on a variety of textured papers, sometimes using pencil, black pen, coloured pencils or scanned in and minimally digitally-coloured. I have used reference from my own zoo photographs taken over the years (including working from little 6″ x 4″ pictures…). I’ve been fortunate to be able to display a number of these pieces as part of an art group at the art gallery and museum, Nature In Art, in Gloucestershire. This technique allows me to emphasise the drawn line more as a change from my brush mark-focused paintings.

‘Amur Leopard’, pencil pen, charcoal pencil and chalk on textured paper, 2018, A4.

‘Owl Butterflies’, black pen on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2020, A5-size.

‘Giant Anteaters’, black pen and coloured pencils on sketch paper, 2018 and reworked 2020, A3-size.

‘Ring-tailed Lemur’, black pen, chalk pencil and coloured pencils on green card, 2020, A5ish.

‘W.I.P. African Penguins’, black pen and coloured pencil on sketch paper, 2020-, A3.

‘Menorcan Ponies’, black pen on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2019, A4.

‘Let Sleeping Lions Lie/Golden Syrup Lion’, black pen and coloured pencils on textured paper, 2019, A4.

‘Capybara’, pencil on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2018, A5ish.

‘Looking At You Raccoon’, black pen on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2018, A4.

‘Rocky Bear’, black pen on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2017, A4ish.

‘Macaque Monkeys’, black pen on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2017, A4.

‘Ruffed Lemurs’, black pen on textured paper, digitally-coloured, 2016, A4.