1 September 07
Common Moorhen
It’s been a week since I’ve started doing this, and what I’ve learned pretty quickly is that I need urgent remedial work on bills. All bills. This juvenile moorhen was sketched in full noon backlight but I redid the sketch because the bill made it look like a pied-billed grebe. It’s still not right.
My friend Joe gave me an excellent book a while ago on drawing birds — I’m going to dig it out and see what it says about bills and beaks. I’m not going to be able to fudge them any more! Not if I have one a day to do…
(Remember that tomorrow is International Rock-Flipping Day. Not that there are many birds to be found under rocks, but look under your best rock and let us know what you find!)
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Pica – as discussed your blog has now been highlighted in my weekly round-up blog post this Sunday. Love the rock-flipping reference!