Stork (detail), gouache and graphite in Moleskine
I spent an entire day at the ROM this week. The only problem was my compulsive (and futile) attempt to see everything before I settled into drawing. The result is far fewer sketches than I'd hoped to produce. In the end, I drew mainly in the dinosaur and natural history areas. The ROM has a truly wonderful exhibition of birds in flight. I could spend a whole day in that room alone. I'm already hatching plans to do just that. 
Magpies, graphite in Moleskine
Ostrich, graphite in Moleskine
Tern and Stork, graphite and gouache in Moleskine
Triceratops horridus, graphite in Moleskine
Mosasaur, graphite in Moleskine
6 comments:
love the ostrich. I was in the new ROM in December and loved the dinosaur gallery, but the stuffed birds exhibit has always given me the creeps . . .
Ah, Hex, you make me laugh out loud (in a good way). Thank you. p.s. You do know that dinosaurs may be bird ancestors...
awesome sketches. one of my fav wildlife artists, ned aldrich, spends some time drawing/sketching in natural history museums, and has some great drawings he has done of different bird mounts. Some have even been made into paintings
Love the ostrich.
Thank you, Linda. It's a wonderful thing to have a bird stand still long enough to be drawn. I'm quite fascinated by the art (and skill) of taxidermy.
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