Essetti_Oxyura1
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I like sketching waterbirds and particularly waders. The Avocets and Stilts are one of my favorites. We have thounsends of them here mainly in winter and it is really lice to see them in groups.
I discovered the monotype techniques recently and I tried a group of Avocets. I really enjoyed the technique but I'm not very productive because my work on studying bird in the field which didn't give me enough time to sketch and paint. This forum and mainly this wildlife art thread gave me another challenge to go ahead on sketching and painting wildlife. So I'll post further some of my old art work and expect new ones in the following weeks.
I had the habit to visit weekly a pond in the north part of Tunis City with an english friend of mine, a teacher of english here and very keen birdwatcher. This pond was very rich with birds...Marbled teal, White-headed ducks, Purple gallinule, Herons, Acrocephalus warbler breeding.... While birdwatching this juvenile Swallow came and sat on a bank near the water. I had enough time to get these sketches. Since that time the pond desappeared due to pollution and epuration activity. It was really loss of very nice birdwatching site !
I like sketching waterbirds and particularly waders. The Avocets and Stilts are one of my favorites. We have thounsends of them here mainly in winter and it is really lice to see them in groups.
I discovered the monotype techniques recently and I tried a group of Avocets. I really enjoyed the technique but I'm not very productive because my work on studying bird in the field which didn't give me enough time to sketch and paint. This forum and mainly this wildlife art thread gave me another challenge to go ahead on sketching and painting wildlife. So I'll post further some of my old art work and expect new ones in the following weeks.
I had the habit to visit weekly a pond in the north part of Tunis City with an english friend of mine, a teacher of english here and very keen birdwatcher. This pond was very rich with birds...Marbled teal, White-headed ducks, Purple gallinule, Herons, Acrocephalus warbler breeding.... While birdwatching this juvenile Swallow came and sat on a bank near the water. I had enough time to get these sketches. Since that time the pond desappeared due to pollution and epuration activity. It was really loss of very nice birdwatching site !
