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  1. JSparrow

    Wildlife Sightings

    So, our first Spring in our Honey Island Swamp location! (It's getting noisy, :ROFLMAO:) And busy too. But the best I've seen so far is a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers! Spotted yesterday in our neighbor's oak that is probably like a hundred years old. Yes with the moss and everything! Awesome...
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    Working On My Avatar

    So, despite my chosen ID name, until now I have never drawn or painted a sparrow. In fact, most of my birds are waterfowl or those found in the marshes as apposed to song and garden birds. But I am determined to get a good rendering by my own hand for my avatar. The one I have just put up as my...
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    Roseate Spoonbill Babies (cross posted in Colored Pencils)

    They're chicks, I know. But I've been calling them babies for too long to stop now. :LOL: Colored Pencil on 8X10 Ampersand Pastelbord Reference Photo by Tim Comeaux Finally done! This one has been on the shelf, half finished, for so many long months that I forgot what my strategy was for...
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    Roseate Spoonbill Babies

    They're chicks, I know. But I've been calling them babies for too long to stop now. :LOL: Colored Pencil on 8X10 Ampersand Pastelbord Reference Photo by Tim Comeaux Finally done! This one has been on the shelf, half finished, for so many long months that I forgot what my strategy was for...
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    Comparing differences in White Pencils ~ Bonus Comparing Black Pencils

    So @laika posed a question about white pencils in the thread "What's Wrong With Colored Pencils". I thought I would carry on that discussion over here. I didn't find my test swatches for my white pencils, so I quickly dashed one out. And since Laika mentioned using Polychromos (I assume Faber...
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    Colorful Birds

    I'm still new to figuring out uploading images but as I have been asked to show a couple of these, I'll try here. The first is the tutorial I did from Kirsty Partridge. I love the way she draws birds and was determined to learn from her. KingFisher 8.5X11 Strathmore Mixed Media (90 lb) Arteza...
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    Late Introducing Myself

    Hello everyone. I joined CreativeSpark last week, but life happened and I didn’t have a chance to introduce myself until now. I’m from South Louisiana and have done art off and on over the past years but not enough to reach anywhere near the level I wish for. About a year and a half ago we...
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