July, 2010

We are back from our trip to China.  We visited a couple of cities and saw The Great Wall and Terra Cotta Warriors, but the highlight was working at the panda preserve for four days.  We fed them and cleaned their enclosures and took photos.  And on the last day we were led into the juveniles enclosure where we could get up close and personal with some one year olds who loved to play (and chew).

I am working on a protrait of one of the juveniles at the moment.

At left is a 16 x 20 oil on masonite portrait of Beauty a leopard from Botswana (note the discolored left eye).

Mark