The image is of a southern lapwing flying through the air on an abstract background of mostly yellow green. It is rendered in colored pencil and watercolor.
Day 25 Southern Lapwing
The red horns sticking out of its mid-wing are meant to intimidate foes and birds of prey. Red is frequently a symbol of badassery in nature.
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Day 23 California scrub jay
I'm ridiculous. On the one hand, "is it too loose" and on the other, "is it too persnickety?" I actually think I like it, it's whatever.
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Drawing of a bird on a branch. Most detail and color are on the body of the bird with long white tail feathers seen partially connecting to the main creature.
28 - Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia
This fancy male has very long tail feathers and hangs out in Papua New Guinea.
Watercolor and colored pencil
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Sketch of the hoatzin bird sitting on a branch.
Day 26 - Hoatzin
One notable thing--Hoatzin chicks have claws on their wings so they can climb to safety.
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Day 24 - Wilson's bird-of-paradise
Attenborough captured WBOP on film in 1996 by adding a leaf to the cleared display stage on the forest floor. The bird came out to remove the leaf.
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Day 21 - Greater Rhea
Water color and color pencil
20 years ago a pair of Rheas escaped a private zoo in Germany. There's now a population of nearly 600 feral Rheas.
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Graphic painting of a Roseate Spoonbill standing in water with one leg hoisted up out of the water.
Day 14 -- Roseate Spoonbill
Wasn't in studio today so this is part sketch and partially digital color added in Adobe Fresco.
Seen together they are A BOWL OF SPOONBILLS!
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Day 11 — Oriental Dotterel
Experimenting again with watercolor and colored pencils. Straying from the comfort zone.
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Sketch of a hummingbird resting on a evergreen twig
Day 12– Hummingbird or as I say humming friend
It may be due to doing this everyday, I find this getting much easier to click into the zone.
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Sketch of two budgies nose to nose on a perch
Day 11 — Budgies
I love these birds. They are so pro-social it made sense to put two in the sketch. Another really fun one to do.
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Day 10 — Turkey Vulture
Graphite drawing. Actually have a social life today. I mostly got done, you can see incomplete feathering.
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Rough pencil sketch of a bat falcon in flight. The sketch has annotations about the birds colors and patterns.
Day 9 — Bat Falcon
Graphite form study. Not much time today so I just did a sketch of the form that I can come back to and create finished work later.
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Day 8 -- burrowing owl
Graphite study. Another fun one. The white spots aren’t quite sharp enough but the eraser couldn’t get too fine.
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Day 7 -- Anhinga
This cormorant type bird is new to me. It had a lot going on and I ran out of time. Someday I will throw more energy into finishing the details and a dark backdrop behind the head to let it stand out.
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Graphite rendering of Muscovy deck. The duck is looking downward and the rendering is very soft.
Day one million or 6 -- Muscovy duck
Actually enjoyed this one. Ducks are so sweet.
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Pen drawing of an I 'iwi resting on branches with notes about color
Day 5 -- I 'iwi Pen on paper, annotated drawing
Needed a reset after yesterday 😕
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Day 3 -- Curl-crested aracari
Giving watercolor and colored pencil a go because this guy's colors are so fun. Haven't quite figured out how to get them to pop.
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Day 2 Northern hawk-owl
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Grayscale digital drawing of a quail.
Day 1 — California Quail Here’s a my digital render for bird of my childhood!
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