Hey guys. I'm still hard at work on that wood duck painting that I posted a WIP of and have been streaming lately. With any luck it should be complete in the next couple days. However that left me with no art to post this week, and I was feeling pretty bummed about not meeting my goals.

I was flipping through my sketchbook this morning and realized there are a lot of pages I've never posted. These are a few ink and water color sketches of Tyr, a red tailed hawk I used to have. They were done quite a while ago, but I never posted them, and hoped you all might find them interesting? They were done from life as part of a nature journaling exercise.

I'm not as good as some folks. I'm in a group on facebook and I've seen some INSANE sketchbooks/nature journals that make me feel more like I'm drawing stick figures (I think no matter how good you get at art, there is probably always someone better enough that makes you question WHY DO I DO THIS?!). Anyway, this was my first attempt. I haven't done this as much this year, as I've been trying to focus on gesture drawing and sketching from life, which by the way is REALLY hard. Especially when you pretty much only like to draw animals. And animals move. A LOT.

But yeah. So my sketches so far have been pretty loose and messy and not at all like the pretty sketches people post. So I'm usually embarrassed to share them. But these little watercolors didn't come out so bad, so, here they are!