You would think that I would get tired of drawing and painting cranes, but they are so fascinating. The Denver Nature and Science Museum has two dioramas of Sandhill Cranes. The cranes in this drawing are in a diorama depicting their breeding grounds way up north near the Arctic Circle. This group of cranes looks different from the cranes in the other diorama showing them at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado. The cranes here have shorter necks and look smaller than the other cranes. Cranes also dye their feathers with mud when they are nesting. Their feathers are very gray except when they are nesting, they look brown. I am working on a large painting of a crane flying in for a landing. They are such elegant birds that no matter what position they take, they are beautiful.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
More Sandhill Cranes
You would think that I would get tired of drawing and painting cranes, but they are so fascinating. The Denver Nature and Science Museum has two dioramas of Sandhill Cranes. The cranes in this drawing are in a diorama depicting their breeding grounds way up north near the Arctic Circle. This group of cranes looks different from the cranes in the other diorama showing them at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado. The cranes here have shorter necks and look smaller than the other cranes. Cranes also dye their feathers with mud when they are nesting. Their feathers are very gray except when they are nesting, they look brown. I am working on a large painting of a crane flying in for a landing. They are such elegant birds that no matter what position they take, they are beautiful.
