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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.


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


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
 


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


 
 

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

 
bat falcons
bat falcons
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x33" 2006-2007
detail: vertical
detail: horizontal
streak-backed oriole, blue mockingbird, yellow grosbeak, ferruginous pygmy-owl
Mob Scene
streak-backed oriole, blue mockingbird, yellow grosbeak, ferruginous pygmy-owl 
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x33" 2006-2007
detail: streak-backed oriole
detail: general
detail: ferruginous pygmy-owl
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
ringed kingfisher
ringed kingfisher
graphite, ink, colored pencil, gouache and water color wash
44"x33" 2006-2007
detail
 
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