Ross's Gull first attempt

Well I did get back to drawing last night after all our dreary, humid air moved out. But after I got going, I realized that this little creature has way to many feathers to draw this small. What to do??? Start all over again tonight??? I think I'm going to have to. Second times a charm, as they say! Back to the drawing board...tonight!

Seagull Finished!

Haven't been doing too much drawing lately, been busy with other things, but I finished him up last night. I started to post him in a vertical format and then decided it really should be horizontal! Hope you like him! His mouth was a very tricky detail but I love the way it came out!

Seagull Close-up

Sea Gull Stage 2 or F_ck BP!!!!!

This sea gull had the hardest mouth to draw and I'm still not finished with it. It needs to be darker. I just ordered some new really dark red reds from Prismacolor and will have to go over the inside of the mouth again. I hope he looks like he is saying "F_ck BP!"

The feathers need more layers of color and I need to look at some more reference for the tail feathers. Actually I think they are the tips of his wings (they need to be black) as I think the tail feathers are white. Research! The 2 photos I was using for reference were blocked by other seagulls!

Selling well!

Well another print of my gannets got bought by someone in Australia! I'll have to print that one up today and get to the post office again. My listing is number 295 if you want to have a look.

I hope the charities are making lots of money off of this donated art! Please consider donating some yourself! You upload it to upload it to http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/, she posts it on http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/. People make a donation to either of these two charities, she emails you their address, and you send out your sketch. Can be anything on the topic.

"The $10.00 is a donation to help the animal victims of the Deep Water Horizon Gulf Oil Spill. Every penny is donated. The two Non-Profits that are benefitting are The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and The International Bird Rescue Research Center."

But what are they going to do with all the animals they are saving? They can't just release them back into the wild or they will get soaked in the oil again. Build a humongous new sea world for turtles and birds? And keep them there how long, before it's safe to release them back into the wild? How long will it take until the fish are safe for the birds and turtles to eat? How long until there are some fish and microbes, and right down the food chain, to sustain life in the Gulf? So many questions I would like to ask the experts. So sad at this devastation.

Seagull Bird stage one

Here's the beginning of a seagull. Looks like he's screaming at BP!!!!!!

Gannets Birds closeup

Gannets Birds

I was reading Curious Crows blog about the ripplesketches blog to help with cleaning up the poor animals in the Gulf, and decided to draw some Gannets, as they were some of the first birds to be covered in that awful oil. So here are these beautiful birds, startlingly white and pure before their destruction. I'm going to upload it to http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/ if I can figure it out, and offer a print of it to anyone who wants one for $10.00 to help raise funds. Just hope I can figure it out!