Birds

 

The Last Day of Summer

The Old Hydro Line

Dark Blue

Goldenrod Blue

Property Line

The Evening Post

Junco in January

Wintering Loon

Coloured pencil drawing of a large grey and blue bird in a hunched sitting position.

Great Blue Heron at Dawn

coloured pencil drawing of a grey and buff-coloured bird with a black cap perched on a branch among cattails.
Coloured pencil drawing of a blue bird with a white chest and blue chestband, perched on a mossy branch.
coloured pencil drawing of two grey and buff-coloured birds with black caps against a background of grey foliage.

Blue Valentine

Downy

The three drawings below are based on photos I took at Magdalen College, Oxford and belong to my “Passage of Time” series.

The Petty King

Nostalgia

Written in Stone

The three drawings below are based on photos I took of a blackbird nest in 2023 — from egg to nestling. In reality, there were four successful hatches!

For the drawings below, I am grateful to the photographer Harry Collins, whose photos I used as a reference with licence.