R. Beese Art

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Last four Orange Alert birds:

Dovekie

Western Gull

Kirtland's Warbler

Great Black-backed Gull

93/112 Tipping Point birds painted.

The Kansas Tipping Point birds will be on display and available for purchase at one of the Johnson County Library locations in January 2027! I'll share more info closer to the show.

Kansas City has a visitor: a brown booby!

He's been hanging out for a few days now, looking like he's not quite sure how he got here but enjoying the attention of all the birders coming to see him.

My husband and I went to see him last night and got some great pictures.

This week's tipping point birds:

Pyrrhuloxia

Red Knot

Short-billed Gull

Short-billed Dowitcher

This week's tipping point birds:

Black-bellied Plover

Glaucous Gull

Hudsonian Whimbrel

Pelagic Cormorant

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Common Grackle - 8x10" watercolor on Arches cold press

I kinda love Grackles. They can be obnoxious but they're so pretty.

Four more tipping point birds, including two that probably should be on the red alert list.

Long-tailed Duck

Black Swift

California Condor (red alert)

Whooping Crane (red alert)

I'm pretty sure the condor and crane are my best yet. I'm very happy with how they turned out. ---------------------------------------------

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The final three Red Alert species and the first Orange Alert!

Band-rumped Storm-petrel

Fea's (Cape Verde) Petrel

Saltmarsh Sparrow

King Eider

As of today I have officially painted all 42 species on the Tipping Point Red Alert list!

These aren't the last four, but the last full page of Red Alert:

Bicknell's Thrush

Ashy Storm-Petrel

Black-Capped Petrel

Baird's Sparrow

Today's Tipping Point birds:

Guadalupe Murrelet

Townsend's Storm-petrel

LeConte's Thrasher

Bachman's Sparrow

I'm nearly done with the Red Alert list - only 7 more to go!

Mourning Dove - 12x16" watercolor on Arches cold press

I love mourning doves. They are so wonderfully stupid and so soft and pretty.

Next set of four Red Alert Tipping Point species:

Brown-capped Rosy-finch

Craveri's Murrelet

Hawaiian Petrel

Red-faced Cormorant

65/112 birds done!

In my head, I envision this series being an exhibition or show of some kind in order to A) raise awareness on declining bird populations and B) raise money for conservation efforts. I have this show almost fully mapped out in my head and I have a long way to go still, but I can see this idea very clearly.

The challenge is that I don't actually know how to make a solo show/exhibition happen. Ideally I'd be able to sell these pieces eventually, which means it probably wouldn't be a museum thing? Or maybe it is and I just use prints as the fundraising piece. I genuinely don't know. There are a few local places I could propose the idea to, and one of those I feel fairly confident about as a starting point.

I went for a walk last night and saw my first Common Yellowthroat!

Watercolor on Arches cold press

Today's set of Tipping Point birds. These four mark halfway through the full list of 112 species!

Greater Sage-grouse

Wilson's Plover

Tricolored Blackbird

Kittlitz's Murrelet