This morning I spent four hours sketching at Melbourne Zoo. I am posting the photos of the sketches. I am taking an old, lined ledger to sketch in at the zoo. It is light and a bigger size than my everyday sketchbook. I used watercolour pencils, without adding water – no time!

There were many animals that were too far away or not around, so I choose those close. Some even stayed still for me !

Here they all are. There is so much I could write about sketching each of these, but this blog is two days late already.

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The wombat was asleep and my absolute highlight of the day. Wombats are nocturnal, This one was in a zoo-built underground borrow. Right next to the glass viewing panel. They have never been there when I visited previously. There was low light, but I could sketch and observe up close. He was in the deepest of sleeps.

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I am going to try and go back soon.