17 January 08
Sketching in the Dark
Last night Yolo Audubon hosted Larry Arbanas, a brilliant bird videographer from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology who now lives in Bishop. He showed us lots of mini-movies with gorgeous shots of birds. I started sketching, though I was sitting at the back and it was very dark.
It’s a good exercise: you learn to look at the bird, not your paper, which you can’t see. My scribbles are hard to decipher but I’m pleased with a few of these lines (I think it’s a white-tailed kite in case you’re wondering).
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