Andi Pasti's Animal Art

As we are in the middle of autumn, which animal could be a better motif than the hibernating dormouse. Wrapped in decaying and orange-brown leaves, it is the perfect embodiment of coziness. This image was created during an online session with wildlifedrawing.co.uk last week. I am super pleased with it, one could use that as a postcard. Jenny Webber again did a wonderful job with easing us participants into the first lines. We started with some drawing exercises, like drawing outlines with your non-dominant hand or drawing by only looking at the subject not your paper. And all that within 30 seconds. Gosh! The results are somewhat hilarious that I am not sure whether to post them here. At the same time I assume there is at least one fancy schmancy art gallery in this country that would put these scribbles on display. After the session I remembered that I had drawn a dormouse before, during lockdown 2020. This time with pencils only. And no nest around it. There are a few species of dorm...