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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.
 
Lion pyrography I did on a small 5x7 wood plaque. Colored with colored pencils.

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Wood plaque with the image of a lion burned into it, and the lion has been colored in typical sandy browns. The background is dark brown and has a mandala like design in it.
 
Requested by a patron! For June and July I'm letting subscribers suggest sea life or ancient art artifacts for me to paint little studies of.

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a digitally painted image of an angler fish lit by an unseen light source
 
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.
 
I’ve begun a drawing that uses my own photo as a ref for the background and one from pixabay as a ref for the fox kits, while following a tutorial on the kits (Bonny Snowdon). The loose sketching is freaking me out, lol. I usually draw in detail, section by section, but am making myself try this new (to me) method of sketching in tonal values across the foxes before adding detail. It’s good to experiment — even if you’re rubbish at sketching, as I am 🫣 # # #
Unfinished coloured sketch of two fox kits touching noses against the background of two logs.
 
I thought it might be interesting to show a bit of my art workflow. First, I do a rough pencil sketch in my sketchbook. When I have a pretty good composition, I then transfer that sketch to pastel paper. Currently I am using Clairfontaine Pastelmat which I really love. I like to start working from the eyes outward. This owl was created for a bird alphabet challenge that I am slowly trying to complete. Prints are available at mmandersonart.com. # # # #
Rough pencil sketch of an owl from my sketchbook.
Work in progress on a soft pastel painting of a Ural owl on sienna color paper.
Finished soft pastel artwork by MM Anderson depicting a Ural owl with white feathers dappled with black and dark brown on a blue background.
 
Here he is all finished! Octopus 🐙 drawn with mixed media on buff sketchbook.
I used pen and ink, colour pencil, Posca paint pens, graphite pencil and gouache.
Pretty much a whole art shop of supplies thrown at it! 😂

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Drawing of an octopus in full colour mixed media on buff paper
 
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