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By 22/10/2009January 13th, 20226 Comments

 

Yesterday morning I took my son Max to watch pelicans being introduced to their new home at the zoological park at Clères. It was a very rainy day, which was no doubt perfect for pelicans. Less so for sketchbooks.

They were enormous! Max had been expecting something duck-sized I think. He was very impressed by them, and the first thing he did when he got home was draw one. And so, since I never did post another colour-bottom ant, here’s Max’s sketch of a pelican, standing triumphantly over a very exotic fish.

I’m especially intrigued by the way he’s drawn feathers. I think he was influenced by a stylised depiction of a peacock that was pinned up round the zoo.

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