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Zambia - Large, Grey and Unmistakable by Art Safari
South Luangwa is the hotspot for African wildlife!
Our base for this wildlife sketching week is a friendly, simple safari lodge situated just outside the park on the banks of the Luangwa River. Thornicroft Lodge holds a fabulous position on the river. There is always something happening at the water’s edge – whether it is hippos and crocodiles lazing around, or elephants coming to drink! Wildlife can also wander freely through the lodge at any time of day. There is always some action to be sketched and drawn somewhere in camp…
October is a time of year that is fantastic for elephants. So we set out to show that they are not always ‘large, grey and unmistakable’!
We focus on
South Luangwa is the hotspot for African wildlife!
Our base for this wildlife sketching week is a friendly, simple safari lodge situated just outside the park on the banks of the Luangwa River. Thornicroft Lodge holds a fabulous position on the river. There is always something happening at the water’s edge – whether it is hippos and crocodiles lazing around, or elephants coming to drink! Wildlife can also wander freely through the lodge at any time of day. There is always some action to be sketched and drawn somewhere in camp…
October is a time of year that is fantastic for elephants. So we set out to show that they are not always ‘large, grey and unmistakable’!
We focus on wildlife sketching from open vehicles and use our time back in camp to work up sketches into paintings. Your tutors will give demonstrations and provide one-to-one tuition time. They help you to develop your way of working, and observational techniques for drawing moving animals from life.
On day and night game drives, we fill our sketchbooks with elephant, lion, leopard, giraffe, zebra, impala, kudu, baboons, and warthog on the grassy floodplains and mopane woodlands, not to mention pods of hippo and numerous water birds in the ox-bow lagoons of the Luangwa River!
This is a hot time of year when the animals congregate in the main Mfuwe area near permanent water. It’s highly exciting. The skies are clear and blue, and predators are more numerous and more tempted by the plains game – making an encounter with the Luangwa’s famous leopards even more likely….
By giving yourself a week’s painting in the bush you have a wonderful opportunity to study animals in depth, improving your field sketching techniques and your plein air confidence.
Whatever your level of artistic skill, the combination of art and wildlife is unbelievably exciting, challenging and great fun!
Photographers often join Art Safari tours as they enjoy the time given to observing the whole habitat, and to watching the behaviour of the wildlife - a slower safari with all the excitement.