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Current WIP: Birds of the Midwest (aka Teeny Tiny Birds)
Each bird is painted in a 1x1" square, with the exception of the Great Blue Heron. These birds are all fairly common around my city at various times through the year.
This project has been so much fun, and great practice for control and details at a small scale. There's no real system for which bird I paint next, apart from considerations for color. Otherwise it's all vibes based.
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Teeny Tiny Birds of the Midwest: FINISHED!
Watercolors on paper, each bird is in a 1x1" square with the exception of the Great Blue Heron. This took approximately 20-30 hours over the course of a week.
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Bird list, left to right and top to bottom:
Great Blue Heron Triptych - Watercolor on Paper
When I started this, I was planning to do three different birds. But once I painted the middle one, nothing really felt like it would fit except more Great Blue Herons.
Today's painting: black-capped chickadee, 5.5x6" watercolor on paper This one will probably be a gift for my mom.
This is my favorite bird. They're just adorable and fearless, and I love mimicking their two-note whistle because it confuses the heck out of them. I can get chickadees whistling back to me from all over the neighborhood, and usually one will venture closer to find the strange bird.
I applied for a studio today, and it was terrifying. I've got the painting/making art part of this down; talking about myself as an artist and marketing my art is new and a little scary.
Nothing to do but just keep putting stuff out there I guess.
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Commissions, prints, and originals available!
Today was a learn and practice day. I've been meaning to watch John Muir Laws' tutorial on drawing birds for weeks and just haven't had it in me to sit for a 2 hour video, but it was really helpful.
He talked about his technique for quick outlines when you're sketching out in nature, and then spent a lot of time going over the different groups of feathers that make up birds' faces and wings. That part was really helpful, because it should make it easier to draw/paint birds and actually understand what I'm drawing.
I do need a video or some kind of practice with bird anatomy; I have a basic idea, but I need some practice with bird feet.
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I'm addicted to painting chickadees. They're just too cute.
Black-capped Chickadee IV - 4x6" watercolor in paper
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Rock Pigeon - 8x10" watercolor on paper
I had a lot of fun with this one. I figured it would be funny to have my first big painting on new paper be a super derpy bird.
The new paints were more of a struggle than I expected; it's too many colors and I don't know what they look like yet, so there was a lot of trial and error with colors.
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4x6" watercolor on paper
Commissions are open! I have 5 slots available for 4x6" bird paintings.
Teeny Tiny Birds prints will be available ✨soon✨ for $70.
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