I have spent many hours watching & sketching wildlife in the bush. This allows me to create natural & convincing compositions even though my watercolor paintings are produced in the studio, thousands of miles away from Africa. Sketching is vital to my work and I treat it as a life-drawing class where I sketch exactly what I see in front of me in the bush. Painting is a completely different process because I am creating a finished piece of wildlife art and using my imagination in addition to my knowledge of the wildlife.
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