birdsart | almost daily paintings
drawings, illustrations & wildlife art

We visited the Monfragüe National Park – may be the most well known birding spot in Extremadura. The question there is: How much did you see, and not – what did you see.

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While traveling trough Extremadura, I saw so many good opportunities for sketching and painting. Especially the mountainous landscape offers so much different views. Due to the tight program we had, I could sketch only during our bus stops or after dinner. So I had to concentrate on landscapes. All sketches are with inkpen and colored pencils.

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During the last weeks there was not much time for painting. On my to-do list were some bird paintings. The barn owls was painted for the exhibition »Uilen op de Beeldenstorm« in Holland.

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Somewhere deep in the eastern part of East-Berlin is located a big park with a narrow-gauge railway runs by children. There is also a petting zoo with different animals. And they have these amazing chickens with black necks and tails. I made some sketches and photos. Last year I bought a black frame, so I thought to make a painting which will suit especially to this frame.

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South-east from Berlin is located the Seddin-lake. There is a spot, where black-headed gulls, great-crested grebes and black terns are breeding together. I spent about 6 hours on a boat bridge not covered in the bright sun. My left face is now sunburned. Actually I wanted to sketch the black terns, but all these breeding grebes were good subjects of painting.

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