just started drawing a jag called ares

Wonderful Leigh - my favourite 'big cat!' :o)

My grand daughter will love it. She is two and a half and she can name all creatures great and small.

OH my word what a beautiful creature, absolutely stunning face, I love big cats. I am sure it will be fab. when you have finished it, it looks great already. Oh I wish I had your talent for drawing and painting. Ah well back to the gardening. lol. :O)

It's looking really good already. How long does it take you to complete a drawing?

Wow. Stunning

they take me about 30-40 hours but I don't time myself . it just ends up looking finished . I have to be my own best critic . I squint my eyes,stand on chairs and leave it alone which can be just as important realy . your grand daughter sounds like a young asiring naturalist . id of loved to of been but I hate flying .I like all animals but jags and Siberian tigers are right up there . elephants are my faverite I guess and of course my dogs and fish .I like tapiers and pygmy hippos , hyena rhino . the list goes on . my faverite snake is a gaboon viper . thanx everyone .

You are so clever!!!! That's amazing :-)

I would prefer Persian Cats.

thank you

Leigh, I am always fascinated to watch as you put in the 'layers' of detail. It is such a precise and beautiful technique. Well-practised and perfected. I love the drawing and we all just know that it will be amazing when finished!

thank you so much ck I take pride in my art especialy now im doing it to actualy save big cats at the kent big cat rescue . hopefully ill get to draw all there 50+ big cats and some .

Superb as ever Leigh great to be able to help save these beautiful creatures :o)

Wonderful Leigh. Had to smile as your list of favourite animals grew and grew.. its so hard to choose when they are all so different. Its such a gift to be able to do what you do, blows my mind.

it is great to help these animals especialy with something I love doing neellan . my list could grow in the hundreds of thousands probably . you got to respect the creatures that perhaps arnt liked like flies . imagine a world without them . I know it seams nice but there would be a lot of nasty dead corpses laying about . I read a statistic about blue bottles . if you took a breeding pair and gave them and there young perfect conditions and know preditors in a year there would be a ball of them the size of the planet .

Another superb painting to show us,Leigh..What a magnificent animal..you were certainly given a fantastic gift,being able to do this,and it is a gift,that comes from within..I'm still waiting to find my hidden talent yet ! Lol.x

You are back Leigh you said you would be ! the painting is fabulous you have an amazing talent it's good to see your work in progress it's brillliant xx

this is another beautiful piece Leigh. So talented :o)

thank you so much im pleased with it especialy as I have a great perpous for my art now . im going for my meeting with lainey who runs the big cat rescue with puna the tigress framed up Monday . I cant wait .

Amazing as usual Nosey, what a beauty.

thank you grandmage x .

Good luck for Monday Leigh we will be waiting to hear how your meeting went x

thank you amy ill let you know personaly if ya get the soup on lol xx .

Wonderfully drawn Leigh the eyes are great.

thanx thrupenny eyes are my thing I guess . they say a lot so I take great care doing them .

Also shows a very good artist and agree the eyes do say all the eyes are the windows of the soul they say. :o)))

its true they are very telling about a lot of things .

:o)) even health.

Definitely tp or liars or ill health and many things

How did you get on with your friends at the Big Cat Santuary? Were they happy with the picture?

they were very happy as was I olive . I sore my first white lions which were amazing . I also sore puna realy close so I could here her chuffing which is a friendly noise a tiger makes . I could of reached out and touched her and I really wanted too . I got some film of these that ill put on a blog on here when I get round to it . I sore my first black panther and ares at a distance . there was also a wild cat about a quarter the size of a domestic cat from asia but it was hidden as were many . I couldn't take pictures as they were either moving too quick , too far away or just hidden so I filmed instead . a great day and they loved my art .

So pleased you enjoyed your day, great to have film too of your visit. Great that they appreciate your art work as well, so pleased you deserve heaps of praise for the hard work you put into those pictures they are truly amazing. :O) Happy painting :O) looking forward to the blog :O)

thank you me too ill film my garden so far too .

good idea Noseypotter, I love your garden structures. :O) it will be nice to see them in situ :O)

wow the tigress I drew puna has sold already strate away for the money asked for . what a result . it will be on here asap olive

that is wonderful news for you Leigh.

Yes it is wonderful news Nosey, well done & congrats.

it seams like a jag print is sold too and they want the original and I havnt framed it or got the prints back yet so its looking good . ill put the blog and films on as soon as I get a good day too film my garden when it isn't raining .

thank you hb x