birds

Work from 2015

I try to do a couple of birds a week (obviously don't post them all). This is based on an on-line photo reference drawn with a "soft" Palomino Blackwing pencil and a 4B Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth Progress woodless pencil. Hence the dark velvety black.

Playing around with bird patterns. I scanned in all my watercolor birds and then arranged them with GIMP.

In the migration seasons the geese and swans fly for the night to the sea get safe rest .And playing with positive and negative spaces

Birds bikes and bells. It started as a quick bike doodle and then I got carried away. I kinda like getting carried away. I seldom know where it will end up.

When I am angry and frustrated with the world (politics, wild fires, injustice, etc.) I seem to be drawn to drawing raptors. The first one is today's sketch, the other two are from former days. Blackwing pencil and woodless B4 pencil on Canson sketch paper.

Part 2 of Hailuoto landscapes. Last cranes gathering to migratory

Here is a sneak peaks of my submission to the Home Sweet Home Challenge. I loved this challenge because it forced me to do something I never would have, which gave me happy surprises as I worked through it.

Some personable corvid sketches that emerged from my pencil.

This is a graphite pencil drawing of a hunting hawk somewhat loosely based on a photo. The reference photo is from: Birds of Prey by Paul D. Frost (Paragon Books Ltd 2006) and credited to Martin B Withers/FLPA. I found the book in the Goodwill a couple of month ago and was much inspired by the beautiful photographs.

Pelican Queen gives a captivating rally speech to her subjects that are in her mind. Used some watercolor-pencils and some digital overlay.

Working on characters.

Repping the hood, as they say. Renton. 425. Weird place to have settled down but at least we have big birds and kids riding them.

Birds perch on their octopus friend’s limbs.

Lindsey's prompt: 4 Calling birds

Linocut from my previous post

Strange friends connected through love and understanding.

This is a cute bird family.

It wasn’t intentional but now I can’t unsee two birds.

Romantic birds and their narwhal pals.

The story behind this is that when my little sister and I were kids, we invented a game called Blammer. You duct tape small trashcans to your back and try to slam a sock ball into your opponents basket. We used tennis rackets for defense. We used to terrorize our parents with all the running and yelling in the house. We're in our 30's now and try and play when we see each other. I call her Chicken and she calls me Ducky. Which is why we're are riding birds. One of my favorite pieces I've ever done. A birthday present for her.

I don’t do much on a plane except doodle. And this was no exception. I love to travel, even the long days that go with it.

Experimenting with linocut techniques digitally...

Acrylic painting that has the clouds that change depending on where the lighting comes from. Birds having fun on a Winter day.

This is my family crest