So, it’s been quite a long while since I picked up my watercolour gear and painted something—over a year to be honest. I guess with life and work and everything else going on in the world I kind of lost interest in this medium in my art journey. But it’s nice to know that I […]
The Rufous-Necked Hornbill. This distinctive bird, distributed mainly along North-eastern India, Bhutan & Southeast Asia, boasts a rich orange-red (rufous) plumage around it’s neck, head, & underparts, & bright blue colouring around the eyes, with glossy dark green elsewhere.The beaks appear broken but is normal, and mature birds also sport black ridges along the upper […]
The Canada Jay, grey/gray jay, or whisky jack is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae, and is the national bird of Canada. It is found year-round in the coniferous northern forests of North America. This bird has pale grey underparts, darker grey upperparts and a grey-white head with a darker grey nape.Canada Jays typically […]
Another classic Puffin bird piece I worked on to round off the year. If I’ve not said this before—and if you haven’t picked up on it—Puffins are one of my favourite birds.Aside from their monochromatic plumage offset by brightly coloured beaks (at least on the males), puffins look so innocent and are sometimes quite derpy, […]
Christmas White Boomers, or “Xmas Derperoos” as I like to call these two. I wanted to illustrate something that uniquely represented an Australian Christmas, & since it’s much too hot here for reindeers during summer, I learned that Santa hitches white boomers up to his sleigh (slang for large muscly kangaroos, not old Caucasian people […]
It’s that time of the year again; the good ol’ Aussie Magpie has been nesting and saying ‘Hello’ to their neighbours in their own special way… by swooping the ever-living crap out of anything that moves nearby (and sometimes even things that don’t move)! 😂 The Australian Magpie, is a medium-sized bird native to Australia […]
The Philippine Eagle, the national bird of the Philippines, also known as the monkey-eating eagle, or great Philippine eagle, is a critically endangered bird species, endemic to the forests of the Philippines. It sports an orange-brown & white-coloured plumage, and a shaggy crest. It measures up to 102cm (3.35ft) in length, and weights up to […]
The Toucan is a striking bird species with large colourful bills. They can grow up to a whopping 65cm with bills up to 20cm; giving them the prize for the bird with the largest bill when compared to it’s body size. They can also live up to around 20 years. Media: Copic Markers, Coloured Pencil, […]
It’s been a little while since I got some time & inclination to open up my sketchbook & put something in it again, so I thought it was about time. Mudskippers are amazing critters. They’re as cute & quirky as they are mindblowing, so of course I had to try to immortalise one in my […]
Revisiting this majestic Chilean bird once again. The Andean Condor, a resident of the Andes. It is the largest flying bird in the world by combined measurement of weight & wingspan. Its wingspan can each up to 3.3m (10ft 10in). It is one of the longest lived birds with lifespans of up to 70 years. […]
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