The Little Nuthatch — field guide paintings

Here is the latest in my bird watching painting series. This is part one of the ducks and geese. Part two will be done much later, I am through with ducks for a while. This one took me a long time, I want the birds to be accurate, but it was a bit of a struggle. Ducks are so hard to draw!!

Another painting from my bird watch series. I love these cute little songbirds!

The Sparrows are done!! Aren't sparrows interesting? They are so similar but all different. I don't think I could EVER identify one as anything specific but a "sparrow". Taking a tiny little break from the bird list project now to work on some bird nest paintings. My thought was that if I do 5 more bird nests paintings I will have enough pieces for a 2011 calendar, with no repeats from the calendar I made in 2009 (although that was just for family + friends)! I am working on a cute pekin robin and one red breasted nuthatch with eggs.

While there are many more water birds to go, there are even more perching birds! So I am starting with sparrows.

My bird list paintings continue! Quite a selection of birds in this one! I started with the list of 'Limpkin, Rails, Gallinule, Coot, Loons, Grebes', then added in the 'Shearwaters, Storm-petrel, Pelicans, Gannet, Cormorant'. 199 birds to go!