On this trip, I did one thing in my sketchbook which I really never do: I drew from photographs.
I did this because I wanted to include memories of the animals I had seen which were most impressive to me. But I couldn't draw on a moving safari jeep!
I'm glad I included them in the sketchbook, because this is what I show to people when I talk about my trip, not my photographs! And so these few drawings from photos give me a prompt to share about the cool animals we saw.
My favorite was the pack of wild dogs. The guides were beside themselves. Evidently, these are few and rarely seen and we got to see a large group of them. And they moved slowly enough that we got some decent photos.
One of our other great experiences learning about this amazing nation was a trip to a hippo reserve... I had hoped to sketch on the slow-moving boat, but it was pouring rain! So I sketched these impressions from photos later in the dry hotel room.
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