Animals have always been an important part of my life and I relish the challenge of trying to capture their unique personalities and characteristics on canvas. I enjoy exploring various mediums however the seemingly simple pencil is one of my favourites, even though each piece takes many hours of work. I like the way I can control the image layering to add fine detail and depth whilst adding tone and texture. Pastels were my first love and now again I will get the urge for some colour. A new area I am exploring is tinted charcoal pencils and coloured pencils with ink, am...more