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Everyone's a birder. They just don't know it yet.

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This week's tipping point birds:

Black-bellied Plover

Glaucous Gull

Hudsonian Whimbrel

Pelagic Cormorant

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Common Grackle - 8x10" watercolor on Arches cold press

I kinda love Grackles. They can be obnoxious but they're so pretty.

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Four more tipping point birds, including two that probably should be on the red alert list.

Long-tailed Duck

Black Swift

California Condor (red alert)

Whooping Crane (red alert)

I'm pretty sure the condor and crane are my best yet. I'm very happy with how they turned out. ---------------------------------------------

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I've also added a print request link. If there's a print you'd like to order that's not available on my site, fill out the form and I'll let you know when it's available!

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The final three Red Alert species and the first Orange Alert!

Band-rumped Storm-petrel

Fea's (Cape Verde) Petrel

Saltmarsh Sparrow

King Eider

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As of today I have officially painted all 42 species on the Tipping Point Red Alert list!

These aren't the last four, but the last full page of Red Alert:

Bicknell's Thrush

Ashy Storm-Petrel

Black-Capped Petrel

Baird's Sparrow

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Today's Tipping Point birds:

Guadalupe Murrelet

Townsend's Storm-petrel

LeConte's Thrasher

Bachman's Sparrow

I'm nearly done with the Red Alert list - only 7 more to go!

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Mourning Dove - 12x16" watercolor on Arches cold press

I love mourning doves. They are so wonderfully stupid and so soft and pretty.

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Next set of four Red Alert Tipping Point species:

Brown-capped Rosy-finch

Craveri's Murrelet

Hawaiian Petrel

Red-faced Cormorant

65/112 birds done!

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I've been working on this Tipping Point series for a couple months now, and if anyone can offer some insight/tips I'd be very grateful:

In my head, I envision this series being an exhibition or show of some kind in order to A) raise awareness on declining bird populations and B) raise money for conservation efforts. I have this show almost fully mapped out in my head and I have a long way to go still, but I can see this idea very clearly.

The challenge is that I don't actually know how to make a solo show/exhibition happen. Ideally I'd be able to sell these pieces eventually, which means it probably wouldn't be a museum thing? Or maybe it is and I just use prints as the fundraising piece. I genuinely don't know. There are a few local places I could propose the idea to, and one of those I feel fairly confident about as a starting point.

I'm trying to figure out if it's worth applying for a grant to start framing stuff, when I don't really know how to actually pull off what I'm envisioning.

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I went for a walk last night and saw my first Common Yellowthroat!

Watercolor on Arches cold press

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Today's set of Tipping Point birds. These four mark halfway through the full list of 112 species!

Greater Sage-grouse

Wilson's Plover

Tricolored Blackbird

Kittlitz's Murrelet

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I have two paintings in this show! If you're in the Kansas City area, come check it out starting April 17!

(Also I'm giddy about the fact that they used my art for this. Omgomgomg.)

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The second reception of ArtHeals is this Friday, May 15th from 5-8PM! Hopefully the weather is more cooperative this time, since we got insane wind and rain last month.