With a strong inspiration from wildlife, the following collection is largely hand-drawn and coloured on a variety of textured papers and sometimes 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 display a number of these pieces at art group exhibitions at Nature In Art museum and art gallery in Gloucestershire. This technique allows me to emphasise the drawn line more as a change from my brush mark-focused paintings.
‘Amur Leopard’, pencil, black pen, charcoal pencil and chalk on textured A4 paper.
‘Bristolian-African Penguins’, black pen and coloured pencil on A3 cartridge paper.
‘Owl Butterflies’, black pen on textured A5 paper, digitally-coloured.
‘Giant Anteaters’, black pen and coloured pencils on A3 cartridge paper.
‘Menorcan Ponies’, black pen on textured A4 paper, digitally-coloured.
‘Let Sleeping Lions Lie/(Accidentally) Golden Syrup Lion But Alive’, black pen and coloured pencils on textured A4 paper.
‘Capybara’, pencil on textured A5 paper, digitally-coloured.
‘Looking At You Raccoon’, black pen on dye-patterned A4 paper, digitally-coloured.
‘Rocky Bear’, black pen on textured A4 paper, digitally-coloured.
‘Macaque Monkeys’, black pen on textured A4 paper, digitally-coloured.
‘Ruffed Lemurs’, black pen on textured A4 paper, digitally-coloured.
All art on this site © ‘Scootsie Creations’ and Frances Southgate 2025.