Anecdotes from my art journey and painting tipsI started taking painting seriously in 2017 and have consulted thousands of resources to find what works best for me. Here I share what I have learned.
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Anecdotes from my art journey and painting tipsI started taking painting seriously in 2017 and have consulted thousands of resources to find what works best for me. Here I share what I have learned.
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Most often I find the birds I want to paint through browsing unsplash and similar sites for freely available reference photos. When I'm lucky, the photographers include the name of the bird species in the description. When they don't, I usually find out the species by searching the internet (extremely tedious) or by asking people on instagram (invaluably helpful!!).
When I painted this green bird, I mistook it for a hummingbird and browsed all sorts of hummingbird pages, until I found out - thanks to a comment on my instagram post - that this bird is actually a rufous-tailed jacamar which as I learned is a common bird in Trinidad and Tobago. The eighteen currently recognized species of Jacamar (Galbulidae family) are native to Central and South America. They are in fact more closely related to woodpeckers than hummingbirds! Many of them are extremely beautiful and I am sure I'm going to paint more of them. If you're curious, have a look at the reference photo by Carmem Arquelau. Only in hindsight I noticed she actually included the bird species in the description!
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