Day two hundred and seventy: Costa Rica photos are a great source of subject matter. I looked at several in my travel stash before I selected one of an osprey launching from a bare branch. A very lucky snap of the shutter! As I studied each candidate (a landscape, a great heron, a mangrove swallow) I contemplated how I might draw it, what medium I would use, and how I might alter the composition. It was the giant wing of this magnificent bird that finally inspired me to put my digital pencil to the pad, and it was a joy to find myself able to easily lay down its outline. I almost left it at that! But I’m glad I filled in the body and feathers, and gave the bird a real sense of flight.
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