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February 23, 2016February 23, 2016outikimalainen Leave a comment

Sivustoa työstetään parhaillaan! Odotus palkitaan keväämmällä, kun kimalaiskeskeinen maailma avautuu hitaasti mutta vakaasti.

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Study on bird feet, part 1. Also, number 4 from @ziedarling 's #drawingprompts. On the left an emu foot from @pythonpaige 's photo. I've never seen an emu on my life but they are ridiculously fascinating modern day dinosaurs! On the right, well, seagull as you probably already guessed. Note to self: I really really need another sketchbook. Preferably one with different kind of paper. #sketchbook #naturestudy #nature #luonnos #luonnoskirja #luonto #emu #dromaius #novaehollandiae #dromaiusnovaehollandiae #seagull #laridae #lokki #birdfeet #darlingdrawings

Iron-oxidizing bacteria / rautabakteeri on the shore of the Baltic sea. If you find a layer of what looks like oil on top of water, test if the thin film can be broken to sort of flakes. If so, then no worries, it's just the work of a bunch of iron-loving bacteria. #nature #naturejournaling #naturejournal #luonto #luontopäiväkirja #ironoxidizingbacteria #järnbakterie #rautabakteeri #leptothrixdiscophora #leptothrix #discophora #bacteria #bacteriafilm

8th of April 2018. Weather warming up quite a lot, birds competing with each others' singing skills. Still lots of snow in the forest and shadowy spots. No new leaves anywhere just yet. Birds: Fringilla coelebs (peipponen, chaffinch), Turdus merula (mustarastas, common blackbird) and the usual winter bunch - Parus major, Cyanistes caeruleus, Passer domesticus. Sketch-wise testing my limits with very light colorscale and not drawing all the twigs and other detail. #nature #naturejournaling #naturejournal #luonto #luontopäiväkirja #sketchbook #watercolor #marker #kevät #spring #april #huhtikuu

Rhododendron, overwintered leaves and a bud. Not much on bloom in the nature yet- I did see some Tussilago farfara (leskenlehti, coltsfoot) from the car window yesterday but didn't have the option of stopping for a quick sketch. But there are always these beautiful evergreens 💚 Testing wider variety of coloring options- meaning, that it's mainly about testing my own limits rather than the limits of my watercolors. I realized that using a heavy weight, good quality sketchpaper instead of actual watercolor paper can work well. I have a tendency of fine-tuning 'till the end of day if given the opportunity, and when using a paper that does not support such action, I've noticed that actual sketching is much easier for me. #nature #naturejournaling #naturejournal #rhododendron #alppiruusu #kevät #spring #luonto #luontopäiväkirja #sketchbook #drawing #drawingprompts #marker #watercolor #plantlady

Number 15 of @ziedarling 's #drawingprompts is chicken. I, sadly, have zero chickens, but luckily @thewomanwhomarriedabear has plenty of them. Hence, the drawing is based on one of her photos. And several of her birdies. Also, I have an urge of petting a chicken 🙈 Note to self: get a sketchbook with smoother paper. Also, learn to draw those bird legs. Image description: a drawn picture of a chicken and six chicks. The drawing is made with colored pencils- the chicken is drawn with magenta and the chicks with green, blue and orange. #darlingdrawings #sketchbook #drawing #colouredpencil #derwent #chicken #countryside #artjournal #imagedescription #imadethis #desperatelyseekingchicken

White wagtail, västäräkki (Motacilla alba). Saw a couple casually hunting on a sunny spot yesterday! // White wagtails are curious creatures. I've worked at two different greenhouses and they both had wagtails nesting indoors- several couples actually. The birds build their nests very cautiously and before you know you've got cute tiny fluffballs running around. // The thing is, many birds end up inside greenhouses. Unless you ventilate the building, it will get too hot and the plants suffer, so, it's open windows from time to time. Usually birds freak out when they can't find their way out and end up dead- always unfortunate. But I've never seen a wagtail act that way- they are calm and right at home. // Last year at Kaisaniemi botanical garden (part of @luomusgalleria ) there was a wagtail's nest in the oldest part of the greenhouse, Palm House, and surprisingly a blackbird's nest at another room (plants from South Africa and Australia, in case you're curious). I wouldn't be surprised if the blackbirds adopted the behaviour from wagtails- in any case, it's a huge advantage for the birds (unless they nest is removed- which in some cases has happened, especially if it's located in a greenhouse solely for food production). The chicks grow up in safe surroundings and the couple has an option for another set of offsprings during the same season. Their youngsters have time to grow and develope well before it's autumn again and time for migration. // Also, #drawingprompts of @ziedarling : number 11, "something lovely". // Since I didn't have my camera with me, this picture is drawn from a picture taken by Ómar Runólfsson (https://www.flickr.com/photos/omarrun/3570951074/). Image description: a white wagtail, male, drawn with thin black marker and slightly colored with water color. #naturejournaling #nature #västäräkki #whitewagtail #sketchbook #mixedmedia #marker #watercolor #kevätseuranta #spring #april #huhtikuu #darlingdraws #yleluonto #suomenluonto #tringaretki

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