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Hello, everybody! :)
Hope you all are doing well.
It's my first post showing my artworks here. I'm illustrator and even I've started drawing with traditional medium and most in realistic style, currently I illustrate birds in a "cartoon-ish" style. So it's always a lovely challenge to make a...
So these are both older digital pieces I've done and I felt like they're nice enough to share :giggle:
Thinking of doing a new series with some songbirds I've been seeing on my trips lately, but we'll see how that goes haha
This Manakin was painted for the field guide 101+ Common Birds of Costa Rica.
It’s included not because its common all over Costa Rica but because its very common in the specific regions where its found. That was the criteria for which species was included in the book.
They display in leks...
Pyrography (wood burning) and acrylic on basswood board. My brother provided me with a reference photo he took around Platoro, CO, USA of this Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)
Dear bird lovers,
Could you please help me identify the birds on this artwork by 'Wafae Ahalouch el Keriasti'?
I need to know their name and where they live. I numbered the birds for convenience.
Thank you all for advance 🙏
And greetings from the Netherlands!
"Nightstalker" pyrography (wood burning ) and acrylic on basswood round, 13"x9" inches, 2021
After finishing up Quotations, I was inspired to pull out some of my photos and used a Barred Owl I'd taken at the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center. This bird was an education bird (a bird that they...
"Quotations," pyrography (wood burning) and acrylic on basswood round, 9"x13" inches, 2021 (pending sale!)
I started this one last year (2020) in July after an ileostomy reversal and got most of the it done except the insane detail in the throat. I got intimidated and let it sit until April...
Pyrography and acrylic on basswood round, 13x9 inches, 2021.
Wood burning piece I did of a Barred Owl who works as an education bird and foster mom at a local raptor center.
Over the last couple of years or so, I've been trying to learn how to sketch and paint, especially using watercolours. The results are very hit and miss. This is a watercolour I painted for my brother back in June. I am enjoying the huge learning curve.
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pyrography (wood and paper burning) and acrylic washes on paper from a reference photo I took at Mount Capulin in New Mexico, US 2017. 11"x14"
The Paradise-Sunbirds is a group of 6 large sunbirds species with a very restricted distribution in mountainous areas of Eastern Africa. They inhabit only in cloud forests and adjacent grasslands and thickets.
1 - Emerald Paradise-Sunbird, Ruwenzori, Uganda & DRC - 1700-2500 m / 2 -...
I sketched this Kestrel during art class at school. This is my first attempt at drawing a bird in a more realistic style, so it ain't great! I used 2b , Hb and 4b pencils and a kneadable rubber. Any constructive criticism would be much appreciated, I'm still very much a beginner. :)
Long-crested Manucoda, 22 cm, Huon Peninsula, montane forests / Double-horned Bowerbird, 18 cm, South-east New Guinea, lowland and hill rainforests / King wattled Honey-eater, 20 cm, Bird's Head Peninsula, cloud forests / Helmeted Bowerbird, 15 cm, Central Highlands, upper cloud forests /...
Imperial Honeyeater, 22 cm - Solomon Island, lowland forests / Ruby-throated Honeyeater, 13 cm - Lord Howe Island, Australia, woodlands and thickets / Bare-faced Myzomela, 10 cm - Southern New-Guinea, lowland forests and woodlands / Giant blue Honeyeater, 30 cm - New Caledonia, lowland forests /...
Black Billed Magpie created from a photograph taken in Creede, Colorado. Korean title translates to "It's Tasty" or "It's Delicious"