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Post by crgcas »

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Another excellent day of sketching in sunny Arizona! Greg, Nikol & Nichole joined us this time at the Wildlife World Zoo. I came back with a few sketches and a bit of sunburn. We sketched from 10 'till about 2pm when we starting really crawling. I'd imagine scans will be trickling in over the week this week. I had fun hanging out with Greg again and meeting Nikol & Nichole - sorry to have missed everyone who couldn't make it this time!

I'll post a few photos shortly as well, in the meantime here are my scribblings...

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I was hoping to do a better banner this time but where did all the time go? :D
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Post by donnam »

Nicely done. Animals are tough aren't they? Guess the Arizona contingent went for animals this crawl.
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Post by billfulton »

I think the banner is awesome! Love the humor! Nice creatures, too, especially the rhino. Cool!
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donnam: Yes, animals are tough! The prarie dogs are like drawing gnats. None have the descency to pose for us..

billfulton: Thanks! :)

Ok, Here are a few photos, I'll spare everyone the zillion animal pix but had to sneak a few in here.

This guy stole the show. While confirming for us that he was, in fact , really alive he trailed a stream of drool from mouth to ground for quite some time. Nikol reports you could see the puddle from the SkyRide.
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New baby tigers
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This is an albino wallabe, not an escaped mutated lab rat as I had previously assumed
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Hel-lo!
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There were a lot of albino animals there - wallabees, an aligator, etc. Much fun!
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Post by donnam »

Thanks for the pix. The baby tigers are sooooooo adorable.
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Post by Thorsten »

Craig, thank you for sharing "pics and pics" -- haven't there been any chances for "pics of pigs" in the zoo ?

Cool SC-Logo!

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Post by Joan T »

Crgcas - Great group of animal sketches. I'm glad you had sunny, warm weather at the zoo. We were rather cold at the zoo in NJ. Your giraffes are super. I love how animals tend to pose with their butts facing us. Cool group of photos!!
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Post by nikol »

Craig - I'm so glad you got your sketches up. The digital images don't do justice to the beautiful detail in your watercolors. My old scanner won't talk to my new Vista computer so I had to take pictures of my sketches. I'm going to try to post two of them here. *edit - the posting didn't work since I don't have any webspace. Here are links to flickr.

This is our friend Mr. Rhino:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/23013949@N ... otostream/

This is my version of someone feeding a giraffe:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23013949@N03/2206963519/

It was great to meet everyone at the sketchcrawl. I hope that we do it again at a place where the subjects can't move!

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Post by crgcas »

Thanks Nicol! The camera didn't do your colors justice either but these are great - post the others soon (the IHOP one too!). If you need a spot I can host the images for you. Look forward to seeing the rest. Amy & the other Nichole's are coming soon - not sure when Greg will post his.

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Post by mhimeswc »

Great zoo sketches! I like those giraffes - as well as the quickies of the sitting camel and the rhino.

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