Oh look … another Blue jay!

Your going to get tired of Blue jays soon. This is my fourth attempt at doing a full colour ink drawing. Let me tell you, it’s not as easy as it sounds. Not sure why, but trying to feather in blue is incredibly difficult – the shadows and highlights just don’t cooperate. It’s not hard [...]

Cheek by beak

I have a terrible time with perspective. It often takes a couple of tries to get a particular aspect correct. A good example is the sketch of my little House Finch. The first one was coming along fine, until I hit his beak. Take a look: From Catpaw’s Art work – birds Beaks are a [...]

I’ll bet you wondered where I was

But building up to the entire bird is a different matter – a shredding matter. It’s nice to be able to hide the evidence of my first attempts. My wings are anembarrassment to the bird world.