Ben Costamagna

The most charismatic vulture in the Alps, known for eating bones and using red earth to colour their feathers.

Black-headed gull. Watercolor and ink.

Acrylics on paper.

Gouache on paper.

Last set of pages from my Colombia sketchbook. Since Colombia has so many species of birds, I ended up sketching quite a few.

Gouache on paper, fresh off the easel.

All drawn on location.

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but there is always time to draw some birds.

I'll post more pages later.

A beautiful forest vulture from the Americas.

After every piece I do with acrylics, my first thought is always "never again", but somehow I come back to them every now and often.

I am quite happy about the result. I finally feel like I am going somewhere with watercolors, even though I still make mistakes I can't fix.

I've been playing with oil pastels recently. I am really enjoying them, even though I only have a very limited selection of colors.

I probably put more effort into painting the bananas than the bird, but I'm still happy with the result.

I kept this in my head for way too long. Had to grab my markers and make a small poster.

Acrylics on paper.

Annoyingly messed up the sea by putting too much water on it, but I had a lot of fun painting the dots on three shark's skin with gouache