Newest piece - `Royal Blue`

[DusanPos]

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/27-Apr-2011/22382-Royal_Blue.jpg
11" x 14" on 140lbs arches paper with craola pencil crayons and some prismas

background is watercolor yellow ochre

[jacquie7153]

This is excellent. I really like your work.

[Orchid Lady]

Very nice work! Is it a Red Tailed Hawk? I was just recently photographing some Birds of Prey and they had a Falconers' museum that had alot of the "hoods" that the falconers used, as you have depicted in this painting.

[DusanPos]

yep its a depiction of a red tail hawk. The coloration and pattern on the birds is so complex that i have a really hard time making it more realistic. The falconer museum sounds amazing, where is it/whats it called?

The research I have done on the topic always amazes me, how people can use birds to catch live game. Its pretty cool

[Orchid Lady]

The falconer's museum is called the "Archives of American Falconry" and is in Boise, Idaho on the property of The Peregrine Fund- World Center for Birds of Prey. The Peregrine Fund has about a dozen or so birds of prey and I was there for 3 days photographing the various birds (Harpy eagle, American Kestrel, Bateleur Eagle, etc.). I know it helped me to see the actual birds up close so I could accurately depict them in my paintings.

[timo]

Very beautiful !
Great colour and detail.

[marilyn h]

Wonderful.