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Thesis - Golden Eagle

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Now that my thesis is officially complete, I am going to put up my thesis paintings. For the next ten days, I will be posting the next in the series.

I did 10 watercolor paintings focusing on a specific raptor based on its significance to human culture and history, along with a written component. This is the first of ten, which explores the golden eagle as used by Mongolian eagle hunters.

The roots of falconry are in central Asia, where these people first started hunting with raptors an estimated 6,000 years ago. Even today, they ride out on horseback, dressed in the traditional corsac fox hats, of which they get the pelts from the foxes their eagles catch.

Watercolor on cold-press Arches, about 10X12 inches
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