Natural History Artworks

A blog on natural history art - especially bird art. Here I will post my own works in progress, sketches, technique tips and share thoughts on the work from my favorite artists-of the past through today. All images copyright of the artist described. Artists please contact me if your work is duplicated here to your displeasure. Unless otherwise noted, all other materials Copyright Benjamin Clock 2008.

29 January 2007

The evolution of an artists signature - Fuertes

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Perusing the early published paintings of Louis Agassiz Fuertes from the pages of Birdlore not too long ago, I noticed an interesting progre...
24 January 2007

Potoos - one stump next to another

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Here's another Birds in Art post... an interesting comparison this time. Flipping through the 1994 catalog, I came across this first p...
19 January 2007

Featured Artist - John Sill

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John Sill from North Carolina was one the first bird atists whose work I really scrutinized as a kid. I received slews of bird related gift...
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17 January 2007

Painting of the Day - McQueen

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To splash a bit of color up on the page, I am posting this beautiful piece by Larry McQueen. The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum 'Birds...
15 January 2007

Bird Feet

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Many posts ago I mentioned the topic the rendering of bird feet. I was working on the feet of the Screaming Piha and thought about opening ...
19 December 2006

Art of the Field Guide Plate

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I guess its that time of year...I have been under the weather for the last few days and haven't been able to muster a post. I have been...
15 December 2006

Fuertes - Elliot Coues, the early mentor

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After Fuertes had won the attentions of Elliot Coues, one of the premier ornithologists of the late 1800's, he received a showering of i...
13 December 2006

Horsfall Prints from Chapman's Birdlore - Continued

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As promised, here is the same plate as published in Birdlore in ~1904 and later in Chapman's Warblers of North America. When I realized...
12 December 2006

Horsfall Prints from Chapman's 'Warblers' & Birdlore

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Robert Bruce Horsfall a bird painter living and working in the late 1800's to the early-mid 1900's created a series of plates for Fr...
11 December 2006

J.G. Keulemans litho. in Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americanum

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I recently happened upon an amazing new digital resource including some fabulous bird plates from Salvin's 'Biologia Centrali-Americ...

The Discovery of the Scarlet-banded Barbet

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Dumb Luck: The Discovery of the Scarlet-banded Barbet by Dan Lane The following is an account of the Louisiana State University (LSU) invent...
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07 December 2006

Scarlet-banded Barbet through the eyes of 3

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A while back, I received the new Victor Emanuel Nature Tours catalog in my mailbox. Every year I enjoy getting this piece of mail, not beca...
14 November 2006

Citizen Bird back at CLO!

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The Citizen Bird illustrations are back on the walls at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology observatory. Through the tireless work of my friend ...
03 November 2006

Parotia's in the news

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I have pre-celebrated the Auk cover already...but now it has actually appeared and I am very excited. I have received many compliments from...
28 September 2006

A few 'new' Fuertes images

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On a google search a few days ago I came across a few Fuertes pieces that I haven't seen before. Fuertes was a professional artist for ...
18 September 2006

Another Fuertes on eBay

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I just checked in on yet another Fuertes original on eBay. There has definitely been quite a flurry of pieces up for auction of late. Ther...
07 September 2006

Featured Artist - Julie Zickefoose

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For the second in my featured artist series, I sent off an email to Julie Zickefoose to test the waters and see if she'd be willing to a...
29 August 2006

A Fuertes? sold on eBay

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An interesting auction just wrapped up on eBay yesterday. I spotted this 'Fuertes original' in a no reserve auction about a week ag...
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19 August 2006

Johnson Museum King Rail

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A few months ago I viewed some Fuertes paintings at the Johnson Museum of Art.
31 July 2006

Screaming Piha

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At long last, I am posting the sketch of the 'final' layout for 'The Scream', my Screaming Piha painting that won't seem...
26 July 2006

Painting of the Day - Barry VanDusen

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'Kingfisher at Sterling Peat'. A great field sketch painting by Barry VanDusen. A big subscriber to the school of thought that the...
25 July 2006

Technique exploration - from 'The Undercliff' by Elaine Franks

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For those of you out there that are old hat with watercolor, the technique I'm going to talk about is bound to be old news. Others migh...
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17 July 2006

Featured Artist - Jennifer Brumfield

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Copyright Jennifer Brumfield 2006 I came upon the scientific illustration website of Jennifer Brumfield through a friend and was really imp...

Copyright

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I've been doing some reading about Copyright law in the last few days. I've found a few good sites describing the situations surrou...
11 July 2006

'Painting Birds' by Susan Rayfield

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A few years ago I sent one of my tiny paintings to John O'Neill, a great painter and ornithologist from Louisiana State University. I g...
10 July 2006

The all important Background

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Watercolor is a particularly well suited medium for the loose interpretive handling of soft, subtle patches of light and color and intimatio...
09 July 2006

Painting for the weekend

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I am working on a painting of the lowland neotropical rainforest right now, (update to follow soon). Looking through scans of paintings oth...
05 July 2006

The Auk - Final

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Copyright Benjamin Clock 2006 I worked back into the original painting this weekend to square away some final details before sending it off ...
01 July 2006

The AUK!

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I am really excited to write about the great news I just recently received about the publication of my Carola's Parotia painting on the ...
29 June 2006

Ornithological art - A mystery

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I am the very happy owner of a new mystery piece of Avian art. I found this piece on eBay and snatched it up as soon as I randomly happened...
08 June 2006

Favorite Bird Artist Series - David Sibley

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A new installment in this series. Here is one of David Sibley's bird illustrations. A giant in the world of birding now, David Sibley ...
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