Oh sweet glorious bliss

I am a very contented cat this morning. If you have been a diligent reader of this blog, you will know the area I live is a frequent victim of construction – road construction, condo construction, subway repair construction, garage repair construction. It has been endless. Well for about 3 years now there has been [...]

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Don’t peek – 2 bathing beauties

I never realised a person could have so much fun drawing little birds.  It can be quite frustrating getting the feathers down and don’t get me started on the beaks.  I’ve been practicing bird feet lately, I’ll scan them in later and let you see them. I have pages and pages of feet and eyes [...]

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A bird, a movie, an observation

No none of the above are connected or in the correct order. It was the only way I could think of to tie together three seperate thoughts bouncing around in my head. First the observation – bugger, it really is fall isn’t it? The nights have been quite chilly here. I can tell because my [...]

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Something to keep you happy

I’m off hunting down the elusive laptop deal for a customer today. Yes, I get paid to have fun. So I’ll leave you with this lovely sketch I did last month.

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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 [...]

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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.

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