hey! it's the guy we all drew for #BirbFest!

Watercolor painting of a pigeon. Brown, orange, purple, green mostly.

Happy Wednesday! Last one for #birbfest2026 is the Bronzewing Pigeon. Love the wings on this one! So all done! All 31 complete 😁 Thank you for your kindness. I have already started my Bainbridge Island birds so I'll probably share the first one tomorrow 🪶🐦‍⬛🐦💕 #birbfest #birdart #bronzewingpigeon

Watercolor painting of a Razorbill. black, blue and white.

Today we have a Razorbill for day 3 of #birbfest2026 I hope your week started well! Thank you for all your kindness! I've started to compile a list of all the birds I've seen on Bainbridge Island.....it's a lot! 😂 It'll keep me busy for sure! 😁🦆🪿🦉🐦‍⬛🐦🦅🪶 #birbfest #birdart #razorbill

Watercolor painting of a little yellow and black bird. Green background.

Happy New week! Here is day 4 of #birbfest2026 The Golden-Headed Manakin. Cute little one! Have a great week! #birbfest #birdart #goldenheadedmanakin

Happy Sunday! This is a King Eider for day 5 of #birbfest2026 Hope you are having a great day! #birbfest #birdart #kingeider #duckpainting

A double page spread showing five studies of birds in graphite and color pencils drawn by the artist Dhiyanah Hassan. From top left: Galah cockatoo, Red Junglefowl. On the right page from the top: Short-eared owl, Andean cock-of-the-rock, and Bronzewing Pigeon.

Haven't shared this here. I did the shortlist prompts for last month's #Birbfest

Graphite and color pencil in sketchbook. Species list in alt text 🎨
#birbfest2026 #birds #birdSky #nature #wildlife #TradArt #sciArt #art #animals #artists #sketchbook

Watercolor painting of a Toucanet. Green. Yellow and brown.

Here is my Northern Emerald Toucanet for day 6 of #birbfest2026 #birbfest #birdart #northernemeraldtoucanet Hope you are having a lovely Saturday! Really rainy here so a great day for watching the #sixnations 😁💕🏉

I forgot to post my final #birbfest short list bird, which happened to be a "Red Junglefowl" - cluck cluck.

This was a fun little challenge, I don't have a lot of experience with birds.

#art #pencilcrayon #practice

Watercolor painting of a Stellar's Sea Eagle bird. Brown, white, yellow and green.

Happy Friday! Still catching up with the birds for #birbfest2026 Day 7 was the Stellar's Sea Eagle. This one I actually had my own photo! Taken at a little zoo in England 😁 I hope you have a great day! #birbfest #birdart #stellarsseaeagle

Watercolor painting of a bird. red, black, green mostly.

Happy Thursday! This is my Andean Cock-of-the-Rock for day 8 of #Birbfest2026 Funny one! #birbfest #birdart #andeancockoftherock

artwork of two bronzewing pigeons. one is dancing for another

artwork of king eider in drag and his friend fish in the red shoe.

artwork where the steller's sea eagle stays on the pink salmon. here's inscription on the bottom of the artwork, which says "eagle & pink salmon" on Itelmen language.

artwork of tufted jay draws itself while looking in the mirror

some of my #birbfest 2026 traditional artworks. bronzewing pigeon, king eider, steller's sea eagle, tufted jay 🐦
#birdart

Here are all the birds I did for #birbfest2026, it was super fun researching these birds, learning about them and drawing them, a total treat from the deadline work that I had to get done! Thank you @monkeymintaka🙏🏽❤️
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#birbfest #illustration #procreate handlettering

Watercolor painting of an Indian Paradise Flycatcher bird. Blue, green, orange and yellow.

Happy Wednesday! This one is for Day 9 of #Birbfest2026 the Indian Paradise Flycatcher . #birbfest #indianparadiseflycatcher #birdart

Photo of a small easel with a white board. Resting against the board are cut outs of painted birds and their perches

Some of my fave Birbs from January's #birbfest. Paintings cut out and sitting on the easel. Collage them together or straight up on the wall? #birbfest2026 #oilpaint

Another birdie that got missed in the #birbfest2026 challenge:
EURASIAN WIGEON
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Watercolor painting of an American Purple Gallinule bird. Purple, blue and green mostly.

Here is my American Purple Gallinule for day 10 that I missed. #birbfest2026 #birbfest #birdart #americanpurplegallinule #artchallenge

Day 30
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I’ve taken a video of this painting as the colours came out all dark and purple in the photo I took while it’s bluer in the original. Photo is in the comments
#oystercatcher
#birdsofuk
#art #watercolour #painting #birds

A poster with all 31 birds drawn for birbfest 2026 - the birds are drawn in a tessellated style, split into triangles and coloured so that no two adjacent areas are in the same hues. List of birds: Bronzewing Pigeon, Many-coloured rush tyrant, Razorbill, Golden-headed manakin, King Eider, Northern Emerald-toucanet, Steller's Sea Eagle, Andean cock-of-the-rock, Indian Paradise Flycatcher, American Purple Gallinule, Mountain Bluebird, Common Redpoll, White-eared Pheasant, Silver-eared Mesia, Short-eared Owl, Eurasian Wigeon, Spangled Cotinga, Tufted Jay, Red-legged Seriema, Dalmatian Pelican, Ornate Fruit Dove, Galah Cockatoo, Nuthatch, New Holland Honeyeater, Common Kingfisher, Common Cuckoo, Red-bearded Bee-eater, Little Penguin, Red Junglefowl, Oyster Catcher, Indian Peafowl

Finally had a moment to put all of my #birbfest2026 #CubistBirds creations onto one poster.
That was fun, I learnt a ton about these wonderful species and I love how they all look together

#birbfest #BirdArt #SciArt

Watercolor painting of a mountain bluebird. Blue green

Here is #birbfest2026 day 11 that I missed. The Mountain Bluebird. Have a happy new week! #birbfest #birdart #mountainbluebird

I think my fav bird(that is not waterfowl) is the cock of the rock, but woodcocks are close behind! There's so many good birds i know im forgetting some favs.. I may not have participated in the #birbfest thing but I very much enjoyed seeing everyone else's art of it!

Catching up on the birds that I missed for #birbfest2026!
This one is : LITTLE PENGUIN
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Digital sketch of five birds around a text that says 'birbfest 2026', going clockwise a pigeon, an owl, a pink cockatoo, a red birb with a funky Mohawk and a rooster looking bird.

I only just discovered that #birbfest is a thing so a little late but i did a quick doodle sesh using the shortlist!

#art #birds #birbfest2026

Drawing of a Chick of a Red junglefowl

Drawing of a Eurasian oystercatcher

Drawing of a screaming peacock, Indian peafowl

Last ones! #birbfest

[Day 31: Indian Peafowl 🪶]
#birbfest #birbfest2026

digital painting of an Indian peacock

day 31 of #birbfest2026 with an indian peacock 🦚 it has been a joy drawing these birbs and seeing everyone else's 💙 #art #birdart #sciart #birbfest

A collage of birds from birb fest.

Had a lot of fun with #BirbFest 2026! Ran out of umph part way through, but after drawing gryphons for 100 days straight I figured I needed a break. Here are the birds I finished this month.

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Digital painting of an Indian peafowl facing almost directly to the front but the head is angled down and to the right slightly. This is a peacock in closeup so that only its neck, head, and part of its fanned out tail are visible. The peacock has a brilliant turquoise blue coloration on neck and head with bright green on the close-laid structure of feathers out of which the longer tail feathers emerge. The tail feathers have eye like patterns of dark blue, turquoise blue, light brown, and yellow at spaced intervals.

Last day of #birbfest... I guess it was fitting this one took me the longest 😂 An Indian peafowl showing off! #birds

Thank you to everyone who has followed along with me and the other artists in #BirbFest2026

I love birds and I love art so it has been a ton of fun!

Digital illustration of a male indian peafowl, and this time he's got his little tuft of crown feathers on his head!

Aarrrgh, just realised I forgot to give him his little crown!

#Birbfest #Birbfest2026 #illustration #sketchbook #birds

Watercolor painting of a peacock. Blue, green

Last one for #birbfest2026 Day 31 is the Indian Peafowl or Peacock. Thank you for all your kindness! Kept me going! I missed the first few so I think I'll go back and do them. I have a few others I'd like to do too! 🐦🐦‍⬛🪶🐓🦜🦉🦅🦢🦆🦚😍 #birbfest #birdart #lovebirds

Tonal graphite pencil drawing of a peacock bird with its feathers fanned out on display. Art by Cat McLaughlin.

Tonal etching (print), peacock bird illustration with its feathers fanned out on display. Art by Cat McLaughlin.

I’ve enjoyed following the glorious parade of birdie-themed art for #BirbFest2026.

I saw today’s prompt is the Indian Peafowl 🦚 and decided to share some #peacock art I made a while back, a pencil drawing and an etching.

#BirbFest #TraditionalArt #BirdArt