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Yesterday, I was able to go to the artist meetup at the Field Museum. It is so reenergizing to connect with fellow artists and focus on some new art!

I chose this specimen because of its challenges: the pose, the foreshortening, and the fact that almost all the pigment had faded from it. It is common for pigments to fade over time, which is why I like to use photo reference of a living animal when I paint museum specimens.

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A photo of a taxidermized bird on display in a museum diorama. The lighting is a little low and the colors of the bird are faded, leaving it look mostly dark brown.
Watercolor and gouache painting of a colorful bird. The head and neck is green with a red-tipped fan on its head, the body and tail are blue, and the primary and secondary feathers of the wings are deep red. The bird is posed with wings open and it appears to be flying away from the viewer.
 
I’ve been bowled over by the warm welcome here at #. Thanks so much! :) As an # who’s struggled with the algorithmic commodification of #, it’s been heartening to find a place that (thus far) is more like Ye Internet of Old. As to # : Here’s a recent # # of a great blue heron entitled, “A Tempered Blue as of Sky and Water Commingled.” # # #
A detailed watercolor painting of a great blue heron against a white background.
 
Today I'm sharing my latest phone wallpaper--a Babbler from India and Southeast Asia.

This particular image took me a while--I had a LOT of detail I had to include, and I couldn't rely upon my "cheat brushes" as much as I usually do in Procreate. It turned out cool, though!

Here's the Speedpaint vid:
https://youtu.be/iyAM3Y2fr7o

Enjoy!

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Illustrated phone wallpaper of a Babbler bird looking to the right.  It perches on a branch of wood.  Behind it is a paper texture with a gold gradient at the top and a green gradient at the bottom.  Green and purple crosshatching as well as a double-halo of gold light frame the bird and offset it from the background. Light streams in from the top.
 
This is a Blue Jay, the latest of my phone wallpapers.

Enjoy!

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An illustrated phone wallpaper of a blue jay perched on a branch.  A paper texture and crosshatching is behind it, with a double-halo of purplish blue light surrounding it.  It looks off to the right.
 
Great crested grebes are as wonderful to see in parenting as they are in courtship 🙂 With thanks to Pete Godfrey (Unsplash) for the reference photo. Coloured pencil on hot pressed paper.

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Coloured pencil drawing of a great crested grebe in water heading forward with the faces of three baby grebes visible from behind the adult’s neck.
 

Content warning: Shima Enaga (Hidden for eye contact and shop link)

 
I've been working on sticker designs for the chapbook fundraiser, and I think this one is finally done? Damned close if not. Woo-freaking-hoo!

Learning how to distort text in Illustrator to get this to where I wanted it has been tricky, but fun.

Akire.art isn't live yet, but it will be soon, and I'm super excited about that. I can't wait to share that with you!

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A mockup for a large round sticker for the fundraiser for Akire's poetry comics chapbook First Flight. The sticker is black on a white background, showing a crow in flight with wings stretched up and out and legs thrown back, as the crow joyously takes to the air. Distorted text in a curly serif font surrounds the crow and reads, "When the ground heaves beneath you take wing". The artist's website "akire.art" is printed near the bottom of the sticker.
 
Here are a few more of my illustrations for Wallace Stevens' poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." I only have 2 more to finish -- I'll post the entire series when it's done!

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Stanza VII<br />O thin men of Haddam,<br />Why do you imagine golden birds?<br />Do you not see how the blackbird<br />Walks around the feet<br />Of the women about you?<br /><br />In the foreground is a ruined church with broken statues. Blackbirds perch among the ruins. Through the arch, a flock of blackbirds fly into the distance.
Stanza VIII<br />I know noble accents<br />And lucid, inescapable rhythms;<br />But I know, too,<br />That the blackbird is involved<br />In what I know.<br /><br />Two blackbirds perch on an antique phonograph in a forest clearing. In their beaks, the birds hold punched computer tape that is being fed into the phonograph.
Stanza IX<br />When the blackbird flew out of sight,<br />It marked the edge<br />Of one of many circles.<br /><br />A blackbird flies above a machine with three horns and a crank wheel emerging from the ground. In the background, Saturn and one if its moons glow in the night sky.
Stanza X<br />At the sight of blackbirds<br />Flying in a green light,<br />Even the bawds of euphony<br />Would cry out sharply.<br /><br />A yellow-winged blackbird in a green-glowing cloud flies past a statue of a woman holding a piece of cloth in front of her nude body and staring upwards at the bird with a worried expression on her face.
 
In Greek mythology, a little owl represents or accompanies Athena and has become known as a symbol of knowledge and wisdom attesting to the staying power of the Olympians. The whispers of Athena's legacy are everywhere.

The symbology of the owl has often inspired my own journey. The ability to see through the darkness of life and find knowledge is a potent totem.

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A blue and copper raku vase/vessel with Athena etched on the front with a small stick on the side with a clay owl on it.
A close up of the Athena etching on the middle of the front of a raku pottery vase.
A close up of the neck of a raku pottery vase.
 
Descent fine art prints are available now, made right here in studio using pigment inks and the finest Hahnemuhle Photo Rag.

Prints here: https://pepperraccoon.com/products/descent-limited-edition-archival-art-prints

Original here: https://everydayoriginal.com/product/descent/

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A detail shot of art prints stacked, depicting a diving gannet with six wings falling into layers of hatched clouds lined in gold.
An overhead image of an artwork lying on fox fur, depicting a diving gannet with six wings falling into layers of hatched clouds lined in gold.
A detail image of an artwork, depicting a diving gannet with six wings falling into layers of hatched clouds lined in gold.
 
A bit late for # 🤭 Male Splendid Fairy wren in watercolour & gouache # # # # #
Splendid Fairy Wren painting
 
DIP-V-15105, a # # from the infamous and controversial Cretaceous amber of Myanmar, drawn here in life size (!); but this may well have been a juvenile individual, who knows.

This species has not been named, it is known only from a foot and parts of a wing.

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DIP-V-15105, an unnamed extremely tiny, brownish colored bird climbing a tree trunk upside down
 
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