This page is devoted to bird and nature artwork. I
used to draw some in high school and college, so after a break of, oh,
20 years, I started drawing again around Christmas of 2011. After
only drawing in black-and-white before, I decided to do justice to the
beautiful plumage of birds, I needed to try color. My medium for
all of the drawings below is colored pencil.
Note the drawings I post out here are simply for your viewing, as I
currently do not sell my work. I don't have very many drawings
yet!! It would be like parting with my first born!! Maybe
when I get more of a collection together I will start selling some of my
work.
Note: The background images are the work of John Gould (1804-1881).
Gould was an ornithologist and prolific artist. He worked with
Charles Darwin, work that is referenced in Darwin's landmark On the
Origin of Species. He was fascinated by hummingbirds, and the
prints in the background image are some of Gould's reknowned
hand-colored lithographs on hummingbird species. If you haven't
seen some of his hummingbird prints, they are truly gorgeous. |
