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Sky Painter

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So skilled are the graceful wings of falcons, it's as if they could paint the sky with each feathered tip.

This painting was partially inspired by the quote of a falconer whose blog I read -

"Goshawks are water. Falcons are air and hot stone. Goshawks are water and wood." -- Helen Macdonald

This, obviously, would be the 'air and hot stone.' The next painting, predictably, will be the goshawk.


Watercolor on hot-press Arches, 5X9 inches

This painting is available on my Etsy shop: [link]
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Curious... The slightly folded right wing and the fully extended left wing; is the falcon relying on lift asymmetry to actuate a right roll by shifting its aerodynamic center of lift left of its center of gravity?