BABY PAWS

Baby Paws is a series of charcoal drawings depicting sleeping young animals, developed as a focused exploration of stillness, vulnerability, and scale.

Each work is presented with restraint and minimal context. Backgrounds are left intentionally quiet, allowing form, tone, and gesture to carry the composition without narrative instruction.

The animals are shown at rest. Limbs fold inward. Breathing is implied rather than described. The drawings invite slow observation, rewarding attention over time rather than immediate interpretation.

Charcoal is used for its capacity to hold fine detail while remaining unresolved. Edges soften and dissolve. The surface retains evidence of touch and layering, reinforcing the sense of presence without overt realism.

Baby Paws was developed as a self-contained body of work and sits alongside other series by Rob Harris, including Wild Hearts and Cool Bs. Each series is distinct in tone and scale, yet connected through a consistent visual language grounded in restraint, precision, and control.