I really, really love good drawing, and recently I discovered professional artists' scratchboard - a medium in which black ink covers white clay, and scratching through the black ink makes a white line....the exact reverse of pen-and-ink. It's an unforgiving medium, as mistakes can't be corrected, but it rewards the patient draftsperson with dramatic images that emerge like magic from the dense black surface.

A bobcat with low morning light bringing out his fur texture and, especially, his beautiful eye, was a joy to 'draw'.