
28 Apr Chiricahau Poster moving along
Posted May 9, 2016 from Seattle WA
I’m working on a new poster that got into the queue ahead of Crabs of the Northwest. It’s Specialty and Characteristic Birds of the Chiricahua Mountains. I measured wrong and had to add more board, and I ran off the board at the bottom, but otherwise it’s going ok.
 This is it so far. I need to add a few more birds so I’m going to ask Reed Peters, the owner of Cave Creek Ranch, what other birds should be added. Candidates that I can think of are Thick-billed Kingbird, Greater Pewee and Plumbeous Vireo. White-throated Swift is a possibility. I’m leaving out Blue Grosbeak, sadly and but there may be room there for a Green-tailed Towhee.
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I became convinced that I can’t have a nothing sky in my new painting, Orcas in the Salish Sea. I’ll have to go back to the painting and add a cloudy bright sky, never my favorite thing to have to paint since I don’t paint in oils or take enough pictures of skies.
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I’m also back to work on Whales Starboard, yet another of my paintings whose main subject is orca Whales. In April we were out on a pelagic birding boat at about the continental shelf about thirty miles off Westport and some Transient Orcas, sort of a nuclear family group, altered coarse and went directly under the boat. I missed seeing that but an adolescent came up about 15 feet from the boat to get a look at us and I sure saw that. Lots of Humpbacks out there too, and many were spyhopping to get a better look at us. Not that many boats out that way.
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