Central Park Zoo Sketchcrawl
I spent the day yesterday, with my art buddies Pat and Benedicte, at the Central Park Zoo. It was a beautiful, but hot day, and every school class in the City was there for a field trip! I love sketching at the zoo - it is a real test of how fast you can achieve an image of some type. I sketch in pencil and then take a photo so I know how to paint the animal when I get home. These are the first 4 pages (out of 6) that I painted.
Gentoo and Chinstrap Penguins
King Penguin - These are new penguins in the exhibit and they are bigger than the others.
Three Scarlet Ibis:
Tortoise and Hornbill
Comments
Well done ! Congratulations for sketching fast (I'm hopeless at that!) What did you offer them to make them stand still ? :o)
Posted by: Martine Pittet | June 3, 2010 5:25 PM
Lovely! Great renderings! Yes, I was there and even photographed your hands drawing!
Posted by: Benedicte | June 3, 2010 10:13 PM
Oh great pages Shirley - love the scarlet ibis and that king penguin is just excellent.
Posted by: Sarah | June 4, 2010 5:39 AM
These zoo sketches are quite endearing Shirley - I love the frame/box effect as well, Capturing those moving subjects has to be a challenge.
Posted by: sandy | June 4, 2010 2:05 PM
You did a great job at fast sketching; these are terrific! Love the king penguin and the long tailed hornbill especially!
Posted by: Raena | June 4, 2010 3:03 PM
I marvel at people who sketch things that creep, crawl, peck, flop around, dart,bob and weave and run and bend and move almost constantly--I think even a turtle would challange me--so my strengths are elsewhere----great job!!!
Posted by: E J Mordasky | June 6, 2010 7:03 PM
What a productive trip to the zoo. These are out of this world. Great job!
Posted by: donna noble | June 7, 2010 2:09 PM
Wow! These are great. They all seem to have such charming personalities.
Posted by: Jana Bouc | June 8, 2010 2:14 AM