EVERGLADES ALLIGATOR, TAKE 2

Alligator, 7 x 18 inch ink drawing by George C. Clark    SOLD

When I was in Florida last May I tried to sketch alligators at the Everglades Alligator Farm just outside the Everglades National Park, but none of the gators would hold still long enough to be drawn.  I wound up drawing this across a double page spread in my sketchbook back at my South Beach hotel while looking at a couple of on-site photos displayed on my camera's screen.  I posted the right half of it back in May on this blog.  I have since cut the spread out of the sketchbook, flattened and framed it for my recent show at Arts on Elston, so I can now post the whole drawing.

FLORIDA PRIMEVAL

Florida Primeval, 10.5 x 13.5 inch ink and watercolor painting by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

I found this customer at the Everglades Alligator Farm just outside the Everglades National Park.  I saw plenty of wild alligators and even a couple of crocodiles too, but they were all in the water and mostly moving too fast to photograph, let alone draw.

EVERGLADES ALLIGATOR

Everglades Alligator (detail), 8 x 17 inch ink drawing by George C. Clark

I tried to sketch this gator in the Florida Everglades last week, but he wouldn't hold still long enough to be drawn.  I photographed him, and did this drawing from my photographs.  I actually drew the whole gator across a 2-page spread of my 8 x 8.5 inch inch sketchbook.  It is on a single sheet of paper, but the middle of it is folded and stitched into the binding of the sketchbook.  I won't be able to flatten the drawing out to be properly photographed or framed until I cut the sketchbook's binding apart, which I fully intend to do, but just not yet.