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.

30 August 2007

Painting of Today - Debby Kaspari

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I have an upcoming post in the works featuring the work of Debby Kaspari, for now here is a great painting of Scissor-tailed Flyctachers. C...
29 August 2007

Painting of the Day - Jon Fjeldså

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Anyone recognize this beautiful image? If you own a copy of the great book 'Birds of the High Andes' by Fjeldså and Krabbe, you mig...
26 August 2007

Art Auction at Coeur d'Alene

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I came across an interesting natural history art auction which took place a few weeks ago at a house called Coeur d'Alene. Take a look ...
24 August 2007

Featured Artist - Carel Brest van Kempen

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Flipping through my blog lists a few nights ago, I visited Carel Brest van Kempen's blog Rigor Vitae . Check out his extremely imagina...
10 August 2007

When the painting tells a story

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While breezing through the stacks on a trip up to the library today I randomly spotted Johnsgard's monograph on the Quetzals and Trogons...
09 August 2007

Dan Lane's new Cnipodectes in the Auk

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I spotted the new issue of the Auk this morning with a beautiful painting by Dan Lane on the cover. This is an example of perhaps one of th...
02 August 2007

Fuertes sold on eBay live auction

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A few days ago a beautiful Bald Eagle painting sold on an eBay live auction. Originally estimated to sell for $3-$5,000, the final sale was...
26 July 2007

Return from Alaska

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Back home at last. After 7 great weeks on the road, I have returned to my Ithaca, NY home. Alaska is a fabulous place with unbelievable op...
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18 June 2007

On the Road

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At long last, I have found the tiny smidge of time and energy to post to my poor blog, which has received so little attention from me since ...
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16 March 2007

More hybrid warblers

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I've completed a flurry of painting along with the with the general squall of activities in my life of late. I am on the road right now...
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04 March 2007

Tinkering on the Junkin's Warbler

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Click on the image to enlarge and read the comments. Last weekend with some extra time before the painting needed to be shipped, I was able ...
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03 March 2007

Keulemans and the Shrike-like Cotinga

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Browsing in the library a few days ago I found a small book called Bird Illustrators by C. E. Jackson. The book wasn't striking upon in...
23 February 2007

David Sibley original paintings available

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On David Sibley's homepage, he has occasionally had original paintings available for sale. I happened upon it today and found a nice se...
18 February 2007

Painting the Junkin's Warbler

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A few weeks ago, I began tracking down resources and planning for a painting to appear in the Living Bird magazine. This painting is to acc...
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07 February 2007

Ewoud de Groot website

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I received a nice email from Ewoud de Groot in the Netherlands in response to my post about his Oystercatcher piece in the traveling 'Bi...
05 February 2007

Birds In Art - Arnot Museum

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This past weekend a few friends and I took a trip down to Elmira, New York to visit the Arnot Art Museum. The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Muse...
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...
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