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Heya! I'm Harlen Chen (AKA Oakhorn & Cryptid). He/him. Trans Illustrator. Twitch Affiliate. Fat Bird Aficionado. Twitch schedule: Monday and Thursday @ 8PM EST. Commissions are open. Click here for socials.

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Today's Fat Bird Friday, I wanted to honour the Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea).

In 2015, the 'orange-tufted sunbird' was declared a Palestinian national bird after Israeli authorities tried to change its name in their efforts to erase Palestinian identity. [x] [x]

Not to be confused with the Cinnyris bouvieri, who shares the same name, 'orange-tufted sunbird'. This is the accurate, correct bird for this stamp, apologies for the major error.

I drew a stamp of Palestine Sunbird hanging on an olive branch, (olive trees representative of Palestine), top right signifying the 75th anniversary of Nakba, and last but not least, the quote at the top right corner: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is the hope in Palestine being free one day.

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Time-lapse below:

Also, normally reserve the time-lapse for Patreon members, but I feel like it's not the move to monetize this. So here is the time-lapse from CSP (the last touches were done on Photoshop, which is why it wasn't recorded).

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First ever art booth on May 24th

@ Interesting Things in the heart of Kensington Market in Toronto!

From 11 AM - 7 PM

All the prints, stickers, and more are being sold at a large discount!

More details here or through the QR code

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The Anatomy of Bigeon (B4)

Free full time-lapse vid on my Patreon

If I didn't do this on Premiere Pro and moved to After Effects, this would've been much more interesting to watch, so maybe this is just a teaser for more interesting time-lapses to come?

Here's the song credit: B4 by Ginger Root - as I've been on a GR stint as of late, and it felt like it fit with Bigeon, especially since you all have seen him B4.

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(Instagram video cut below:)

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Song Pick: Holy Hell by Ginger Root

Hey! So apologies for my unplanned hiatus, a lot has spontaneously happened which taken precedence which overwhelmed me.

But now I'm working my way back to post again.

Also I'm now going to be sharing a song of the week/day/moment, whatever emits the art's energy or just how I was feeling.

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Here's the Pabst Blue Ribbon entry I did for the art can contest, unfortunately I didn't get in the finals, but congrats to those who did!

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Southern Red Bishop on Tranquil Bird Tuesday

Trying out Procreate + have been busy due to some unforeseen circumstances, apologies for the infrequent posts!

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Here's a Hooded Merganser Duck I drew for the 7th International Sea Duck Conference Art Exhibition and Contest!

A Souvenir: A Hooded Merganser floating away with a sketch of himself (feasting on a fish), a souvenir by the artist. This implies the human connection, during the sketch and after, including the artist's visual interpretation of the Hooded Merganser translated onto paper.

Congrats to the winner and runner up!

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Oriental Darter stretching out on Malleable Bird Monday

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Happy New Year's! Here's my 2023 art summary.

Aaand of course it's nothing but birds (except the Inktober one). It's been pretty busy this last few months so hopefully I can get more art out besides birds this time around!

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Boxing Day Sale! 20% off on all listed items.

Runs from Dec 26th to 29th, no code needed!

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🎁 A Grey Partridge "on" a (young) Pear Tree for (The First Day Of) Christmas 🎄

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Drowsy Spectacled Eiders for Sleepy Bird Sunday

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🎄Welcome the new addition to the Holiday Bird Postcards series, are the Christmas Bird Ornaments! 🐦

Not to forget the previous two postcards, Owl Wreath and Three King Trees.

Be sure to grab these, and any of my prints and stickers as gifts, before Christmas week arrives!

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The Etsy listing is up for the postcards, get 'em before the Holidays!

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Weathered Wood Stork Wednesday

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Phainopepla for Black (Bird) Friday

25% off on all items listed on my Etsy store! No code needed.

Sale runs from Friday, 24th to Dec 1st.

So get your holiday postcards ahead of time!

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Stout Cuban Tody for Fat Bird Friday

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Hey, I really hate to be this person, but I suspect that your Palestine sunbird stamp art might actually be referenced off the wrong species - I don't know if you're aware but there is another species more commonly known as the orange-tufted sunbird, Cinnyris bouvieri (the Palestine sunbird is Cinnyris osea), which occurs in Africa. C. bouvieri has a green throat & blue & red patches on the chest, while the Palestine sunbird has a more uniformly purplish throat & chest with no red markings.

It's not a problem at all, I never want to make the wrong move, especially for such an important cause.

Looking through from my reference and Google, trying to figure out what caused this error, made me realize that that was exactly what you just described.

I mistakenly only searched for references under the 'orange-tufted sunbird' name, as it said "[Cinnyris osea] also known as the orange-tufted sunbird, a name also used for the similar Cinnyris bouvieri" on Wikipedia.

So I apologize for not double-checking the source material and painting a completely different bird for this, and thank you for bringing it to my attention!! I'm going to quickly edit and change the image. Hopefully people reblog the update instead of the error, even though the damage has been done 😔...