The nuthatch is my favorite bird to paint! You can find out about the special techniques I used to paint this one next month if you’ve signed up for email updates; I’ll reveal the details in June!
ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #68:
This is the back of one of the sections of Tales from the Understory, Part 1 (formerly known as Backyard Food Chain IV). Now I’m using pieces of wooden dowels cut to different lengths and painted to match. It’s great to be able to get so much more depth!
Here’s the front:
It’s easy to see the dowels in this view:
And here’s my wonderful mini miter box that I used to cut them all:
Thanks to my friend Lesley Patterson-Marx for letting me experiment with her miter box first! Check out her work here:
http://lesleypattersonmarx.com/home.html
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