National Wildlife, October 1st, 1995
Bird portraits by six different artists are presented. The artists agree that painters need to spend a considerable amount of time studying the form and movements of the creatures in their natural habitat to paint them accurately. What's behind a painting of birds? A little inspiration and a lot of field work, say these six artists. Few things are more difficult to paint than birds," acclaimed artist-ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson once observed. "A painter strives with brushes and pigments to create the illusion of form. But nature, in coloring birds, attempts to obliterate form." While a...
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