LIVING IN HARMONY - Art Competition.

I have been obsessed with leopards since I was a little tuskerman, so I feel especially thrilled and honoured to have won an art competition in South Africa that is being held to raise awareness by the Primate and Predator Project.

The Project is supporting a system whereby Anatolian Shepherd Dogs are being raised and trained to protect local cattle herds from leopard predation - so livestock and predators can live in harmony. My illustration depicts the relationship between them all.

When art can be used as a tool for conservation... that's what it's all about!

Thank you all who voted for the picture!

Read more:

https://primateandpredatorproject.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/and-the-winners-are/

"PURSUIT" - progression

The first painting of 2016 is done and dusted!

"PURSUIT"
Pastels, Charith Pelpola, 2016

After completing "Duel' last month, I've really wanted to continue painting 'action' scenes with a lot of movement and dynamism.

A Cheetah in chase was an obvious choice. This originally started with a bit of an experiment with a new set of watercolour pencils. But as I filled out the face and started to work on the body in motion, I began to overlay the watercolour with pastels - helping to give more texture to the fur.

Here's a quick video showing the stages in the painting's development:

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"A FORCE OF NATURE" - Special Merit Award!

Here's some good news to kick off this page - my painting, "A Force Of Nature", has just won a Special Merit Award in the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery​ Nature Art Competition.

It was up against some fantastic works of art, so I am pleased, considering its the first time I've gotten off my backside and actually entered a nature art competition in my entire life...

Check out the entries here:

https://www.lightspacetime.com/nature-art-exhibition-special-merit/

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PEN SKETCH: BARBARY APE

It's sometime interesting to see how a simple sketch progresses from start to finish. In this little video, I've condensed about 45 minutes into a 1-minute time-lapse:



I am really pleased that the final sketch went on to be used by the actual Barbary Ape Awareness and Conservation group on some of their merchandise to help raise funds for their work to conserve the species in Morocco. A huge thanks again to Sian Waters and everyone at BMAC for this honour!

Read more about the work of BMAC and what we wildlife artists can do to help them at artistwarriors4wildlife.com

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