Drawing the Great Blue Heron

I’ve been commissioned to paint a Great Blue Heron for someone, and yesterday I took my sketchbook to our excellent local wildlife rehabilitation center, Wildcare, and was allowed into an enclosure where a cattle egret and a one-winged Great Blue are regaining strength. I don’t think it will be released (you’ll note how through the [...]

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How to Paint Big (Try This At Home)

Since painting the Elasmosaur at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, my first 16 foot painting ever, I’ve been seriously itching to try something at home on a much bigger scale than I’ve been doing all my life. Not that there’s anything wrong with detailed little paintings but my eyes are going and I’m [...]

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Goatsucker is Not An Epithet

Is this bird in eclipse plumage?
There are few better ways to start your day than rising before dawn to watch a lunar eclipse. With a comfortable chair, hot coffee and spotting scope, I had a lot of time to contemplate the Universe, Time, Space, and Mortality.
And an unexpected goatsucker.
With the moon in totality, it was [...]

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