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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

PICK-N-MIX #7-The Red Tailed Hawk

Hello everyone. Today I have my 7th installment of the 52 week PICK N MIX Challenge. This week's promps were wildlife and or yellow. Given what I wanted to do, I left the yellow out and went with just wildlife. This is an abstract design based on the tail of the Red Tailed Hawk. For visual interest, I took the white bars from the body and added them to the design.



I have been a birdwatcher since my early teens. In fact when I was that age, I really wanted to be an Ornithologist. Birds were my life (OK, I know I was a geek). 

I had to do something with the Red Tailed Hawk. To begin with, The Red Tailed is the most common hawk in North America. And where I live (rural Missouri), they are a daily visual treat. They can be found soaring with the wind currents or just sitting on a telephone pole waiting for something to stumble by to eat. I don't think I have been outside for over 15 minutes without observing a Red Tailed.

The Mani

I hand painted this with three different Zoyas. They were:
  • Pepper, a brick red cream
  • Jacqueline, an off white nude cream
  • Codie, a blacken brown-now discontinued  (it was one of my freebees from last Spring's Zoya order)

From Left to right: Pepper, Jacqueline, and Codie


Just a One Shot of the Hawk Mani 




A Red Tailed Hawk is even on the front of my Sibley bird guide.




So this is the end of this bird tail and until next time, take care...........Terri


4 comments:

  1. Very artistic! Well done! I love it!

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  2. Thanks, of the first eight, I think this one is my favorite. A little more closer to the heart, I guess.

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  3. Awwwww, fellow birdwatcher! I'm a photographer geek, not only macro shots of insects and flowers, I love to portrait birds too. That's why I usually go "birdwatching". To take pictures.
    And your red tailed hawk nails are great!

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  4. Well, it just great to find out you are a bird watcher. I have every book I ever bought, and that's quite a few years.

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