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I spent a day at the Natural History Museum (Naturalis) in Leiden last Friday. I used the visit to make many small sketches of preserved animals and plants. I considered it as a preparation before going to a zoo. The animals at Naturalis are as real as those in the zoo, only they are dead and therefore, static. It was a good exercise. And I think, I like the challenge of sketching different animals within a short period. The variation is refreshing. This summer, I’ll visit one of the zoo and see how I deal with moving animals other than my cats.
That’s a significant body of drawings you’ve put together there – very impressive! Were all three posts from the one day at the museum?
Thanks Katherine! Yes I did all of them in one day. That was actually my goal for going to the natural history museum. Not really to browse their collection, but to draw