With the publication of the revised edition of Hawks in Flight, I wanted to post a little bit about my drawing technique with pen and ink. I’ve always enjoyed black-and-white drawing. I remember being in third grade and spending hours looking at Earl Poole’s ink drawings in James Bond’s “Birds of the West Indies”. A few […]
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The painting featured here was done during my recent birding workshop at the Pine Butte Guest Ranch in Montana, and is being auctioned to support the great work of Kate Davis’s Raptors of the Rockies program. The auction will run until Sunday evening, June 17th, and can be seen in the sidebar to the right.
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The auction for this painting will be closing in about 48 hours – at 9 PM Eastern time on Tuesday June 5th. You can see the auction and closing time in the sidebar to the right. This is a small gouache painting of a singing male Common Yellowthroat, which will be appearing here soon in
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I’ve just posted a new painting for auction. You can see the auction and closing time in the sidebar to the right. This is a small gouache painting of a singing male Common Yellowthroat, which will be appearing here soon in a blog post about bird song. For more images and more details about the
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I am now offering two of my drawings in an auction, which will be closing in about 24 hours – at 6PM Eastern Time on Sunday April 15th. The two drawings are shown in this post, and to view the auctions click on the links in the sidebar to the right. Check it out, and
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I’ll be at MassAudubon’s annual Birders Meeting next Saturday, March 3rd, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Directions and more info is here. The theme is seabirds, and there is a great lineup of presentations by such luminaries as Debi Shearwater and Dr. Steven Kress. When you’re not engrossed in the presentations, you can find me at a table
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Yesterday I painted a Northern Saw-whet Owl of the very distinctive Queen Charlotte Islands subspecies A. a. brooksi, which was inexplicably left out of the first edition of the Sibley Guide. I’ll post more details about the status and identification of this subspecies here soon. Today I’m just posting photos that I took showing the
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I’ve just updated the New Art page, adding a few paintings that I’ve completed in the past month, including the Pileated Woodpecker shown here. Thanks for taking a look.
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I have donated the painting shown at right – an Osprey carrying a small Striped Bass – to The Nature Conservancy’s Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island, New York. It will be auctioned at their annual Dinner Dance fundraiser on July 30th. If you’re in the area you might want to drop in and check it
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UPDATE Feb 2021 – I’m taking a break from commissions, and will post here whenever they are available again. An opportunity to own an original painting of your favorite bird With a little spare time between book contracts, I have decided to take on a limited number of commissions for new paintings of birds. You choose
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