2 Duckling Souls

This is an acrylic on loose canvas from a photo I took.  The two mallard ducklings didn't survive, but are alive forever in this painting.  They were about three days old at the time.

This art is available as a print on Fine Art America.  I haven't decided to put it anywhere else yet except in offline shows.

Del Mar Stilt

This is an acrylic painting on unstretched canvas 9 x 12.  It is one of my favorites this year.  If you would like to purchase a print, let me know.  It's also available on Fine Art America.  See blow for a link to my page.

I used a blurry photo I took of a black-necked stilt in Del Mar and made it to a painting.  I use a very limited palette with only a few different tubes of paint.  Mostly two types of blue, one type of red, yellow, two types of brown and white. 

Fine Art America:

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New desert painting

I haven't done a desert painting in a long time, so here is a small acrylic one ready for licensing (please contact me if you want to license this).  The original is 9 x 12 in size. This was done from a photo I took in the Anza Borrego desert.

Mama and her ducklings

I still have to put some finishing touches on this acrylic painting of Fish Food Mama and her five ducklings.  One of the things I have to do is create a white, transparent background so I can put them on Cafepress items.  I also need to do some more detail work on a few of the ducklings.

Last Curlew Finished

I think I'm finished with my acrylic painting of an Eskimo Curlew.  It's called "The Last Curlew Calls to its Ancestors".

The last curlew calls. . .

Here is a painting I am still in the process of doing.  It's an acrylic painting of an Eskimo curlew which is either extinct or very close to it.  If I finish it, the full title is going to be  "The last curlew calls to its ancestors because that is all he has left."  I just started painting the bird.

Japanese Brush Painting Class

Today, I went and took a Japanese brush painting class at the Tijuana River Esturarine National Research Reserve.  It was International Migratory Bird Day today.   I've never done this type of painting before.  The paper was all crinkly from shrinking due to the water and wet paint.

Above is my bird on a branch, below are my practice birds.  I had to learn how to do the brush strokes as handling a brush is much different in this type of painting than it is in my traditional type of painting:

Don't laugh at this next one.  This was a long-billed curlew done in a different style.  Unlike realistic western art, this type of art depends more on brush work than on realism.  I know this isn't the best Japanese brush painting of a curlew, but it is my very first one.