27 November 10
Black Phoebe After a Rain Shower
Numenius and I went to Sacramento after lunch today. He was looking for a new sketchbook. We went to Art Ellis where I asked (with no real hope of finding any) for the Clairefontaine Dessin à Grain I’d seen mentioned on Urban Sketchers (the link there was to a hand bookbinder in East Timor, it’s gorgeous stuff). What I did find and decided to try was an Artist Marker Pad (Bee Paper Company).
The phoebe above is my first set of sketches. It is very smooth paper, leaving no bleed lines. I wish it came in sizes large enough to fold and bind… Anyway, the bird. Black phoebes are great to draw in pen and ink because they have such clearly defined, um, black and white markings.
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You are talented I like the acurate detail in your sketches Wish I could sketch birds.
Thanks for helping me ID the black phoebe today (7/27/14). I was sure it was— couldn’t be anything else—with the crest and tail bobbing, but I saw it only from the back. First sighting here near the Owens dry lake bed in Eastern California. It makes sense though because the government has been adding water to the lake bed. Now, don’t try to make sense out of that! Wonderful drawings!