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How-to…
How to Draw Birds: In fall 2009 I stopped in at the offices of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington, where I met a couple of young birder/artists and talked about drawing birds. Several short videos from that afternoon are now posted here.
How I paint: Most of my bird paintings are done in gouache (opaque watercolor) on Strathmore Bristol Board, and over the years I’ve developed a style involving transparent/translucent layers of paint to represent the colors and textures of birds. A slideshow showing one painting from start to finish can be found at this post.
Shoot – I must be doing something wrong. I can find no site listed
as “sibleyart” and this so-called gallery is very disappointing. Not
only are there just a smattering of examples, but they are too small
to get any idea of their quality. Considering the spectacular wealth
of paintings in the Sibley Guide, I don’t get this site. I’ve been
painting birds for sixty years and I love your opaque wc works, and
am even emulating the technique with oil on paper, but this is just
a major-league bummer. Regards, Rick
Rick,
Thanks for the comments. I’ve been working on a number of things to post here, and just got one of them up. I hope to have a few more essays, and a sampler of my work, posted in the next month or two.