Dougalis Wildlifeart-Life studies-Portraits

A snowy owl study based on video I took last week in Wildpark Poing. Has been sketched using various fineliners & pens on toned paper

A  commissioned watercolour I did lately (photo credit: M.Berger-Oswald)

I spent a couple of hours in the zoo yesterday in the morning with a friend. Attached,the "harvest"!

Attached, a series of quick studies I did today in the morning in Munich zoo, while teaching in an animal life drawing workshop.An Indian elephant, Javan Banteng, Kiang and Wood bisons were our models

From my today`s visit to Wildpark Poing-close to Munich.Two eurasian lynx studies, a steppe eagle and a wild boar studies

When I`m not able to study birds or mammals from life, my own videos or nature documentaries provide the visual informations I need. Attached ,quick studies of Demoiselle cranes, Saiga antelopes and Palla`s cats based on video.

I`m just back from Nymphenburg park with-once again a Tawny owl study. Various fineliners and pens have been used to sketch it

Beside my quick studies, I managed to finish some more elaborate pictures on location. In addition my first ever architectural study of an old church in the city of Riesa Eagle owl sketched in zoo of Riesa in a very hot day Egyptian vulture, Dresden zoo European mouflon male in Riesa zoo Head study of a Red kite in the zoo of Riesa And here the whole bird, an injured Red kite A window victim, a house Martin study ..and my first ever detailed architectural study made "plein air" in the city of Riesa Me while sketching the church ...and here me again, while sketching the Egyptian vulture in Dresden zoo