LAS Bird Drawing Workshops: Shorebirds and Waterbirds with John Muir Laws

 The last two weeks I looked for drawing workshop videos on Youtube, that I can watch and sketch along with, to pick up some more tips and tricks and practice drawing. One of my favorite drawing instructors is John Muir Laws and I found some great workshop videos hosted by the Lahontan Audubon Society. One of them was about drawing shorebirds and waterbirds.

Since the workshop video runs 2 hours, I watch it in parts, like 30 mins during my lunch break. It's a lot of fun. I filled two A3 pages so far. Page 1 was about getting the proportions right.

Page 2 was about different angles and the different feather groups (bird in the bottom right corner). Will post more, when I watched the rest of the video.

I also filled a page with Pied Avocets. A dear Bluesky friend and follower posted such lovely photos of an Avocet pair and chicks and I had to do a sketch of them.

Stay safe, wherever you are.

#10minuteartwarmup or Doodling for Stress Reduction

When I visited my abandoned blog some time ago, I came across a blog post by CJ & Ink about her weekly doodling class for stress reduction. I loved the idea and remembered the #10minuteartwarmup I once participated in. I can't remember who hosted it once, but decided to try and do it daily. 10 minutes of sketching/drawing before office. 

Here are some of the sketches I did so far. Some are done on narrow paperstrips I got from a friend. Those were used for marking transport boxes and go to the bin after single use. So recycling is a plus.

European Robin

Blue Tit

Eurasian Wren

I also got a small sketchbook I carry in my backpack.

Another Robin

Long Tailed Tit

And another Robin. *LOL*

Eurasian Jay

Pied Avocet

I sometimes sketch a whole series of the same bird on an A3 sketchbook page. Here the Eurasian Kingfisher.

Thursday Art Date with Rain: January 25th

Finally back on track with an art challenge, although I am not going with the prompt this time for Thursday Art Date with Rain, which is "Clocks". But I'd love to participate in the blog hop and see some fine art and food. So here I share some of my "Mittagspausenvögel" with you. I started sketching birds during my lunch break at work some years ago and shared them on Twitter and later Bluesky. Some of them turn into watercolor paintings later. 

Hope you like them as much as I do.

Chickadee, Coal Tit and Blue Tit

Sanderlings

Waxwing and Wren