For some reason African animals are appearing in my sketches a lot recently. A while back I was sketching an elephant sculpture in Lavenham and now for the second time I am seeing giraffes in the Philippines. The owners of SM Aura (a large expensive mall) have, for some peculiar reason, chosen to use these life-sized gold painted animals (along with hippos and an elephant) as the central motif of their Christmas decorations….frankly I don’t see what is wrong with conventional themes!

Fri-4-Jan-2019