26 May 08

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-heron, pen and ink They’ve irrigated the alfalfa. This springs me into action like nothing you can imagine. I have dug many ditches, planted numerous seeds, tried to keep up with the earwigs (forget it) and my body hurts so much now you’d think I’d been beaten up.

Black-crowned Night-heron, watercolor But the night-herons were all over, and I drew lots of them. The watercolor is premature: the bird’s proportion is all off — but I thought I’d include it since I didn’t get to another.

Too much ditch-digging to do.

Posted by at 09:49 PM in Bird By Bird | Link |

  1. The b-w sketches complement the color one, and you did do a really nice job on the head and eyes anyway. :)

    Happy ditch-digging! I have to weed, but that’s not nearly as back breaking.


    — Teresa    28. May 2008, 06:26    Link

  2. I particularly like the top -left one.

    I adore these grouchy looking birds. They look like irate footballs, to my mind.


    — lisa    29. May 2008, 23:37    Link

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