Jeff's Blog » Animals http://jeffknecht.com/blog My little spot on the web Sun, 23 May 2010 05:08:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mountain Bluebird http://jeffknecht.com/blog/2009/12/13/mountain-bluebird/ http://jeffknecht.com/blog/2009/12/13/mountain-bluebird/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:54:22 +0000 Jeff http://jeffknecht.com/blog/?p=535 mountain-bluebird0001

This mountain bluebird is my entry for Everyday Matters challenge #125: draw a bird.

Drawn from a photograph in the book Born Wild by Henry H. Holdsworth; a photo book of young animals in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

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The cat was lying on the couch, perfectly still.  She looked so content.  How could I not draw her?  Of course, as soon as I sat down on the floor in front of her, she popped her head up to see what I was doing.  I sat, I waited, and eventually she put her head back down.  But she couldn’t resist craning her neck periodically to see what I was doing.  Then she would put her head back down in a different spot.

Cats make really bad models.  I guess that’s why art schools use people.

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