Plains Zebra

Zebra Details

These drawings made at Tarangire, while on safari in Tanzania, are purposely seeking details of pattern and colour, rather than action drawings.

Here I am seeking a calm animal to look at carefully through the telescope.

Notice how in this case, the drawing reminds us of the knight chess piece, or perhaps like the famous classical 'Trojan Horse'. I think this is partly the pose, but more that it is the continuous line of direct drawing, moving speedily around the form, leaving a precise, chisel-like rendering, not intentionally stylised.

Leaving poetry aside, this was a drawing that I actually returned to Africa to make, to really look at the colours of a zebra's eye.