Animal Art - Wildlife

Here you will find a selection of my favourite wildlife and animal art. I love to draw vibrant and detailed drawings, combining coloured pencils with mixed media including PanPastels and Watercolour. I also use graphite to create bold yet detailed, black and white animal art depicting the beauty of wild animals and birds from around the world.

A colourful coloured pencil drawing of a Jaguar cat with a bright blue background

Teefs

Show us your Teefs! This vibrant animal artwork shows a Jaguar roaring. Coloured pencil drawing with PanPastel background, painted on Pastelmat. Greetings cards are available at my Folksy shop

A cute and colourful animal art drawing using coloured pencils. It shows a young giraffe having a cwtch or cuddle with their mum. It's painted with a vibrant green background

Cwtches

A cute and colourful artwork of a baby giraffe cwtching up to their Mam! (Cwtch is Welsh for a cuddle). The vibrant green background was designed to complements the rich browns of the giraffes. Dran in coloured pencils and PanPastel on Pastelmat.
Greetings cards available from my Folksy shop and limited edition fine art prints will be available soon!

Animal art showing a detailed graphite drawing of a lynx cat with a misty, out of focus background.

Steely Gaze

I love lynx, they're so different from most of their feline relatives! This was my first full detailed drawing using graphite, I used a graphite block and a sponge to paint the misty out of focus background.

This detailed animal art shows a red eared slider turtle tucked peacefully and snugly inside their shell. Th edrawing is done in coloured pencil an dteh background is white

Raphael

Kawabunga! When I saw the photo of this red eared slider turtle on the Wildlife Reference Photos website I just HAD to draw it! The artwork is drawn in coloured pencil on hot pressed watercolour paper. Greetings cards are now available from my Folksy shop.

Animal art showing a coloured pencil drawing with a close up of a male lion

Fearless

The courage and silent strength of a lion. This animal drawing shows the direct gaze of a male lion. Drawn in coloured pencil on Pastelmat. Greetings cards are currently available in my Folksy shop, with limited editioned fine art prints coming soon!

Tiger

This vibrant animal art drawing shows a majestic Amur Tiger surveying all around him! Of all the big cats, I do love to draw tigers. Coloured pencil on watercolour paper, reference image kindly supplied by Lisa Ann Watkins.

It's a Cat and Mouse Game

This wildife artwork depicting an Amur tiger and harvest mouse was drawn for Sketch for Survival, 2022. This highlights the importance of conserving the smaller animals as well as the big ones! It's drawing in coloued pencil and PanPastel on Pastelmat.
The original has SOLD but greetings cards are available in my Folksy Shop.

This wildlife art shows a detailed coloured pencil drawing of a vibrant kingfisher with a painterly watercolour background.

Down the Bank

I love seeing kingfishers by the canal bank! This piece of wildlife art was drawn in coloured pencil and watercolour on watercolour paper