Ok so I’m not particularly fond of this piece. There’s nothing actually wrong with it, I suppose, but the subject matter is a bit odd. There are some birds that never look right, in photos or in art, and I’m afraid the Northern Cardinal is one of those species. American Oystercatcher is another, and Mark […]
Back with the yard birds series and a subject that I thought might be a bit of a challenge-American Crow. Why a challenge? Well, crows are black, aren’t they? Wouldn’t it just look like a bird-shaped black hole? Yes, crows are black, but those feathers reflect a lot of other colours, too. I’d need to […]
So, between drawing my Yard Birds, I’ve been working on updating the covers for the Nova Scotia Birder Mysteries. After completing a revamp of the Thompson Nottingham series (see Where Have You BEEN?) we were so pleased with the more ‘professional’ look for the series, and how it now looked like a series, that we were […]
The Pudding Queen 