I'm working on the first lesson on how to draw birds. But in the meantime, here are some bird paintings that have coincided with some experiments in watercolor, using a couple of different brushes. Mechanical pencil on cold-pres (bumpy) paper, then about three layers of paint, light to dark obviously. Mostly burnt sienna, yellow ochre, prussian blue, as well as gray/diluted ink. Some judicious use of masking fluid. I touched them up in photoshop.
I'll take this opportunity to praise the work of a bird photographer named Mike Yip. He has a website called
VancouverIslandBirds (and I believe a book by the same name) which has an enormous number of superb bird photographs and stories of birding in his area. He clearly is a great lover and student of wildlife, and a great amateur photographer too. I want his camera.
The first two paintings in the following series (the willet and the bloody goshawk) are directly based on his photos.
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