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Painting from Plein Air Drawings, Part 2
The collection, so far. Left to right, chestnut sided warbler at Doyle’s cellar; American redstart at Wing Spooner’s malt mill, ovenbird at Spooner’s mill, myrtle warbler at Nelson’s cider mill, and...
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2015 flutters to a landing
White-tailed, a.k.a. black-shouldered kite, preening at Moss Landing. It crossed its wingtips in front of its tail, politely. Pencil-drawn through a scope in a Lana sketchbook. It was a year when...
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Earth Day with the Motmot
Blue crowned motmot in Gamboa, Panama. Currently my favorite bird. Sorry for the bad image quality- there’s no scanner here. This was scope-drawn using the blind-contour technique, which never fails to...
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Bird Work, Bird Art, Bird Play
Wattled jacanas, Chagres River marsh, Gamboa. Painted this damp and humid afternoon back at the house from raw material gathered at the river (alligator scales, moss, dragonfly wings). Watercolor over...
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The Trogon’s Sultry Lashes
Slaty tailed trogons working on a nest- digging into a termite’s home. Barro Colorado Island National Monument, Panama. Pencil on paper, 8 1/2″ x 11″ Trogons have movie-star eyelashes, and I’d always...
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The Better Part of a Year
Winter light on an oxbow’s sandy bluff on the Canadian River in Norman, Oklahoma. Pastel on sanded paper, about 8 1/2″ x 11″ or so. It’s been a strange year, and most of us are glad to scrape the last...
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Heavy weather? Not too bad for birds.
Feeder birds on a freezing National Bird Day, caught in pen and ink. Bluejays make handsome models, but even starlings are kind of pretty when you look close- lovely iridescence, handsome red legs,...
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Perched on a Page: bird sketches galore at the Museum of American Bird Art
Perched on a Page, according to Museum of American Bird Art Director Amy Montague, set the MABA record for… Read more Perched on a Page: bird sketches galore at the Museum of American Bird Art
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