Galloping Giraffe (7" x 10")

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Really love the simple lines and a great sense of movement

Trying to capture movement is a challenge I love. To try and do it with economy of line is an even bigger challenge. As a kid growing up on a farm in the then British Colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), I spent countless hours climbing kopjes to find caves so I could admire San art (erroneously called Bushmen). I was still doing it as an adult, whenever the opportunity arose. There's little doubt that Zimbabwe's Matobo Mountains still have plenty of unrecorded San cave art. I don't think anyone can draw with the economy of line like those little guys. With one line they can tell you what kind of an animal they're recording! And they probably stood painting on a cave wall by firelight. This post in brush and ink of a giraffe galloping, is my attempt at capturing movement as economically as I can.