Bright Side / Eskimo Curlew - Original Prints Migration is perilous

Migration is perilous

even though I knew it was going to be difficult to draw

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but something made me pause this time and simplify it

Bright Side / Eskimo Curlew - Original Prints Migration is perilousBright Side Eskimo Curlew 27x19 inches Pastel on Pastelmat So pleased to bring this one to life! Drawing features a presumed extinct Eskimo Curlew in the Canadian arctic. The design was important for this one. I wanted the bird to be "larger than life" by using a deep wide angle background and careful position of horizon with cloud cover. The title speaks to the lesson to be drawn from the story of this bird species, to be careful with what still