This is a pencil sketch of the possum I created in colour pastel below.

The kookaburra. One of Australia's favourite birds, which sounds like it is laughing when communicating.

cat - pencil sketch

This is another of my pencil sketches. I enjoy drawing animals. Soon I'll be looking for horses to photograph and draw. Strangely enough, horses used to be my passion from the age of 3 till I was in my twenties, when I owned a couple and used to show them, but I haven't done many drawings of them.

Little Poss

This little 'fella' is one of my 'quick' pencil sketches. These pieces don't take long to do, which can be a welcome change to some of the other, bigger and much more time consuming pieces, especially the pointilism pieces shown below.

pastel - female nude

Again, the human body is a wonderful subject.

Possum no.2

This piece was done with brown, black and white pastel

cranky cat - pastel

This cat was unhappy when I took his picture, but I decided to maintain his 'agro' look when I finally drew him. It's all about realism :)

frilled neck lizard in pastel

Our land, Australia, is inhabited by some of the most beautiful and sometimes strange animals, providing artists, like myself, a plethora of subjects to base our artworks on.

male nude (pointilism)

This is another example of my 'drawings' done in the style of pointilism. Again a very time consuming piece. The symmetry of the muscles in the human body are really quite incredible - it's natures' 'art'.

pointilism (female nude)

The form of the human body has always fascinated me and is a subject I enjoyed studying at University many years ago. This piece was produced by using an extremely fine pointed ink pen. There are no lines drawn at all. Leonardo Davinci and Michaelangelo are among some of my favourite artists. Apart from pointilism, which is very time consuming, I enjoy painting nudes in ink-wash.

pastel wren

Birds are not usually my preferred subject for drawings, but these little birds are just beautiful. We have them visit our native garden sometimes and they are lovely to observe as they play around in the trees courting each other.

Koala pencil sketch

I've always loved Australian fauna. My father, who was a professional artist and an Architect, and I used to travel around our countryside photographing various subjects. I was always keen to photograph our native animals and create my drawings from them.

pastel tiger

This pastel drawing of a tiger was done for my sons, who love tigers. I particularly enjoy aiming to have the eyes of my 'subjects' look as if they are 'following' you around the room.

pastel bush baby

This work is of a possum dubbed the "Bush Baby". It is one of my most favourite pieces of the pastel works I have done yet. Produced on an A4 sized paper. Pastel is one of my favourite mediums. Though it can be time consuming and somewhat finnicky, I always enjoy the results you can achieve with it.