We started this blog as a sort of travel blog for ecotourism and local naturalism things, and also a place to dump art. The quarantining for the foreseeable future did dampen the interest in parts of that.
I’m still practicing Spanish since one day we’ll heading back to C. America and S. America. I’m on Duolingo streak – day 55. I’m glad to be able to keep my eye on some long term goals that I can work on these days to help remind that while current events are grim, the times will change.
In the last week I spent a lot of time playing Pokemon Sword on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a really nice game if the little Pokemon RPG world is familiar enough to you.
Because of the Nintendo time I traded off Photoshop time. I see them as very similar things, but I think Photoshop is a little more fun as a video game since it’s much more open ended. Also in the end you have an artwork, though that’s a side-effect of playing in Photoshop.
These are black-necked stilts. They’re somehow both beautiful and ridiculous, a rare combination to pull off. With the tuxedo, white eyebrow soft, and long pink legs they look like they could come out of a Seuss illustration, but they’re also very graceful sandpipers that are wonderful to behold. They’re all over the coasts but like the shallow parts of quiet wetlands. They like flat calm shallow waters with mud to dig for snails, worms, and crustaceans. They are in the same family as avocets and inhabit similar habitats to those avocets like – we see them together sometimes.
I’ve been drawing a few corvids lately for no apparent reason 🙂 I don’t know that I love this specific kind of crosshatching, but it fills the space. I was building things up for shading but didn’t create a lot of contrast here, but it was an exercise I learned from.
The expression here works with the medium I think.
The Nature Bloggist 