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BIRDS
This work is inspired on birding trips to Mexico: Chihuahua, San Blas, Jalisco, El Triunfo (Chiapas) and research from the California Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, and the Los Angeles Natural History Museum.


border troop, 2009
Graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and watercolor wash
132" x 96" overall


aplomado falcon
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x30" 2009

ringed kingfisher
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
41.25" x 29.25" 2009

green jays and ferruginous pygmy-owl
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x30" 2009

green kingfisher
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
30"x22" 2009

thornscrub and plain chachalacas
 graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and watercolor wash 2009

aplomado falcon
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and watercolor wash 2009

great kiskadee and tropical parula,
2009 graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and watercolor wash

crimson-collared grosbeaks,
2009 graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and watercolor wash

 


Mobster
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
132"x90" 2007-2008


Mobster (detail)
blue mockingbird, blue-throated hummingbird, red headed tanager, painted red starts, great kiskadee, green jay


Mobster (detail)
blue-throated hummingbird, red headed tanager, painted red starts, great kiskadee, green jay


Mobster (detail)
flame colored tanager, black-throated magpie-jay


Mobster (detail)
green jays


Mobster (detail)
green jay
 


Mobster (detail)


Mobster (detail)
blue-throated hummingbird,  mountain pygmy-owl
 
 
 


emerald toucanet 
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
25"x30" 2007-2008
 


eared quetzal
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
88"x61" 2007-2008
 
 


keel-billed toucan, 2008
Gouache, watercolor, colored pencil, graphite on paper



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

barred forest-falcon
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x30" 2007-2008

collared forest-falcon 
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x30" 2007-2008

mountain trogon
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
42"x30" 2007-2008

fernbar
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
83"x59" 2007-2008

resplendent quetzal
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x30" 2007-2008

tufted jay
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
42"x30" 2007-2008
blue-crowned motmot
El Triunfo
blue-crowned motmot 
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x33" 2006-2007
detail: ventral view
detail: profile
resplendent quetzal
Chiapas 
resplendent quetzal 
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x33" 2006-2007
detail:quetzal and epyphite


vermillion flycatcher
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x33" 2009


imperial woodpecker, 2008
Gouache, watercolor, colored pencil, graphite on paper


Study: blue-crowned motmot 
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007
Study: tufted jay
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: eared quetzal
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: azure rumped tanager
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: keel-billed toucan
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: gray hawk
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: chestnut mandibilled toucan
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: green jay
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007

Study: green jay
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007
Study: chestnut-sided shrike-vireo
graphite, colored pencil,
13.5"x10" 2006-2007


Study: keel-billed toucan
graphite, colored pencil,
10"x27" 2006-2007

Study: chestnut-mandibilled toucan
graphite, colored pencil,
10"x27" 2006-2007
Study: collared forest-falcon
graphite, colored pencil,
10"x27" 2006-2007

 
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