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2025, bird, nature

Bring Your Bird Drawings to Life with Expert Tips

In The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, John Muir Laws writes about feeling the life within the bird as you study, observe, and draw birds in the wild. This way of thinking helps to bring more personality, veracity, and uniqueness into each bird drawing. Each bird is an individual with its own history, timeline, and […]

2024, nature, plant

Rose d’Ispahan

Study of an Ispahan rose. These beautiful roses, also known as ‘Pompon des Princes’, are native to Iran and are used in perfume making.

Dahlia painting
2022, in progress, nature, oils, painting, plant

Flower painting

First pass at a brilliant yellow dahlia flower. Using India yellow, cad red, ultramarine, and some cad yellow light, sap green. The composition ended up off the canvas. Need to work it out better on paper, next time. According to Wikipedia, Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico and

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