Having spent forty odd years on the land, I have often had the opportunity to stop and observe big buck kangaroos fighting on the saltbush plains.  In this scene, an older red kangaroo is challenged by a younger male while another buck looks on waiting for an opportunity to take on the dominant male.  A female also looks on, approvingly.

The fighting general means the most dominate male wins to father the next generation.

I usually draw wildlife to tell a story, which takes years of gathering material on animal behaviour, especially with my African subjects.  There is no challenge in just ‘painting a pretty picture’ of an animal.  Besides, it adds a little more creativity to the work, a term which the mainstream art world harp on when they blatantly reject realism because of their tainted ideological view that it lacks expressionism and creativity.

The drawing was done with Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencils.