The wildlife painting of a male Red Lechwe below is a medium sized watercolour just completed called ’showing off for the girls’.
Showing off for the Girls
I’ve been taking a short break from painting horses after panicking to try and get paintings ready for the Society of Equestrian Artists’ Exhibition, so have completed a couple of wildlife paintings instead.
The Red Lechwe were seen in Botswana on safari a couple of years ago, they’re great fun to watch if a little difficult to photograph or draw. They prefer to stay in knee deep water and marshy areas where their speed through water gives them an advantage over predators (and photographers / artists).
They are most spectacular when they all take off together if startled, they move very fast splashing through the water in a series of leaps and bounds.