My trip to the zoo...

Unfortunately I couldn't convince anyone to come with me, but dammit I wanted to go to the zoo and draw. I also recently bought a little travel watercolour set that I was anxious to use, so I fooled around with that quite a bit. I don't think I've really used watercolours before since I was 6 or 7.
At the go station, they switched the track number without making an announcement which meant I had half an hour to wait for the train. I wanted to try my watercolour set. The unfortunately chinned gentleman on the right was on my train ride home. (Obviously traced over in photoshop. Scan quality was too poor to post). Most of what I drew on the train will be showing up on Deep Fried Life eventually.
Monkeys have so much personality. I swear those orangutans were making those cocky faces at me. I had to draw them. On the left are two lion tamarins and the bottom right is a mandril (NOT A BABOON).
The Ostrich scared me a bit. I think the female was nesting cause I never saw her get up, and as soon as I approached the barrier the male came over and started posturing, then just stood there staring at me and eventually started hissing. Because he was so up close I tried to draw him as much as I could, but honestly by this time in the trip I was cold, tired and grumpy.
Lessee here... Top left is a green water dragon with a bitchin' battle wound on his lip. bottom left is one sleepy tiger. Its face is all smooshed into the hay. The creepy male ostrich shows up again. Bottom right is a blue crowned motmot. Gorgeous bird. The two pink birds in the top right though, I haven't a clue. Their colour was very vivid, not like a flamingo's. They were why I sat down to paint in that pavillion. And then the motmot tried to kill me and I thought it was way too colourful to not paint too.

All in all, I'm not sure this trip was the most beneficial to my animal anatomy knowledge or my drawing skill. But I spent the day drawing and that's just pure fun.