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Bearded Vulture in gouache.

The most charismatic vulture in the Alps, known for eating bones and using red earth to colour their feathers.

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I am generally not very good at painting backgrounds, so let's try something different this time.

Black-headed gull. Watercolor and ink.

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The Beeeaters

Little Beeeaters (actual species name) huddling together on a branch.

This has been in my living room for a few months, it was one of the first paintings I was happy to display there.

Acrylics on paper.

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The Barn Owl.

Gouache on paper.

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Last set of pages from my Colombia sketchbook. Since Colombia has so many species of birds, I ended up sketching quite a few.

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Red-headed barbets, male and female, hanging out on a branch.

Those birds are from Northern South America.

Gouache on paper, fresh off the easel.

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Some more sketches from Colombia, this time from around Santa Marta, close to the Caribbean coast.

All drawn on location.

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Little dunlin from the sketchbook.

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but there is always time to draw some birds.

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Today I finished the sketchbook I took to Colombia last winter. Here are a few pages from Boyacá and Santander. Mostly drawn on location, I think the Barichara one is the only exception.

I'll post more pages later.

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King vulture from my sketchbook.

A beautiful forest vulture from the Americas.

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Collared aracaris sitting on a branch.

Acrylics on paper.

After every piece I do with acrylics, my first thought is always "never again", but somehow I come back to them every now and often.

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A little Goldfinch I just painted in watercolors.

I am quite happy about the result. I finally feel like I am going somewhere with watercolors, even though I still make mistakes I can't fix.

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I've been playing with oil pastels recently. I am really enjoying them, even though I only have a very limited selection of colors.

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Toco Toucan. Acrylics on paper.

I probably put more effort into painting the bananas than the bird, but I'm still happy with the result.

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Keel billed Toucan.

I kept this in my head for way too long. Had to grab my markers and make a small poster.

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Spectacled owl, a bird I saw in Colombia, has now found a new spot to perch in my living room.

Acrylics on paper.

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Whale shark in watercolor.

Annoyingly messed up the sea by putting too much water on it, but I had a lot of fun painting the dots on three shark's skin with gouache

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