As a teenager studying Biology and Art, I made some anatomical studies of some dead birds, each measured onto the page exactly life size. Most are road casualties. One bird of prey had collided with a window and a pheasant head came from a shoot. A school teacher sourced both of those birds for me. I made 11 studies in all. Other were planned but never happened. Each took one or two days of solid commitment.
I got the idea from seeing a magazine article about William T. Cooper by David Attenborough in the BBC Wildlife Magazine of January 1993. In the article photographs, Cooper is using his own bird studies to aid his acrylic paintings. Lots of other bird artists do this too, sometimes in their sketchbook, sometimes like this, as seperate studies.
Male House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Female House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Collard Dove Streptopelia decaocto
Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilusr
European Robin Erithacus rubecula
Feral Mallard Duck (head) Anas platyrhynchos
Feral Mallard Duck (wings and feet) Anas platyrhynchos
Ring-necked Pheasant (head) Phasianus colchicus
Juvenile Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
Herring Gull Larus argentatus
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