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Portrait of me posing with some of my original watercolors of birds

🎉 Big news! 🎉
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my original watercolors are available 🖼️🪶
take a peek & maybe fall in love with your favorite one😉
#Etsy #EtsyShop #Birdtober #BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #WildlifeArt #ScientificIllustration #NatureArt #ArtistLife

Fischer's Turaco painted with watercolor and black ink

A few details of the process : the shinny plumage I did with special watercolors and the details of the eye made with black ink...

Close up on the bird itself when the painting was finished

The music I was listening to really carried me through the process…
Do you also feel inspired by music when you create? 🎧💭
It was "Ballerina" by Yehezkel Raz
#Birdtober #BirdArt #SciArt #WildlifeArt #Watercolor #ScientificIllustration #BirdIllustration #NatureArt #Inktober #ArtProcess #MusicAndArt

Pacific Wren Painted with watercolor.

Zoom on the painting details... Do we speak about this cute bot ?

A tiny ball of feathers and nerves 😆!
The Wren is pure energy ⚡ — I did band a few, they never stop moving! Such a challenge to handle without them flying off 😅
Birdtober 26 : Pacific #Wren

🐡 #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #BirdArt #Watercolor #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Acorn woodpecker painted with watercolor

My latest watercolor sparkles ✨!
Perfect for the iridescent blue of this Acorn #Woodpecker .
This species breeds in cooperative groups with several males, females, and nest helpers 👀!
🐡 #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #BirdArt #Watercolor #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Merci !

Olive warbler perched in pine trees, painted with watercolor.

Trying to suggest the #bird ’s environment is always a challenge for me 🎨😅…
That’s why I painted the background first, then the bird 🐦💚
Do you also struggle to paint dense vegetation? 😆
#Birdtober 24: #OliveWarbler #SetophagaPinus 🌲
🐡 #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WildlifeArt #ScientificIllustration

Singing Northern Watertrush painted with watercolor

Finished after nightfall 😅🌙… Luckily, I got my scanner back! The painting wasn’t even dry when I scanned it 💦😂
If I’d chosen the #warbler, I would’ve gone for a more colorful species… but I’m playing along! 😉
#sciart #bird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WildlifeArt #ScientificIllustration

Flying eurasian tree sparrow painted with ink and watercolor

My delay is growing 😅! I’ve spent a lot of time on the road lately 🚗💨… and it’s getting hard to keep up with the pace! 🎨
Day 21: Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) 🐦
#sciart #bird #EurasianTreeSparrow #PasserMontanus #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WildlifeArt #ScientificIllustration

American golden plover painted with watercolor and ink

Cryptic plumage is such a challenge 🎨😅!
It’s a true artistic challenge! Still, I love #bird s with this kind of plumage — ptarmigans, owls, #shorebird… real masters of camouflage 👑🌿
#sciart #AmericanGoldenPlover #PluvialisDominica #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WildlifeArt

Ahaha thanks 😆 I killed it !

Thank you ! 🥰

Red footed booby during courtship behavior, painted with watercolor

Did you know that boobies don’t have nostrils? 😲 That helps them avoid swallowing water when they dive 🌊. They breathe through openings under the yellow plate, near the corner of the bill. Do you see?👀
🐡 #bird #seabird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WildlifeArt #ScientificIllustration

Portrait of a Red-crowned Amazon painted with watercolor and ink

Finally found the courage to paint it 😅! (Almost 24 hours to get started!)

I love the feather texture & that eye 👁️🔥.

Do you ever feel like it’s just not the right time to paint? 😄

🐡 #bird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #WatercolorArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt #Parrot #ArtistLife

Pygmea Nuthatch painted with watercolor and black ink

Pygmea Nuthatch painted with watercolor in progress

Ever messed up the final step of your drawing? 😅
I was happy with the watercolor, but not with the ink lines… 🤭
💡#Nuthatch es are the only #bird s that can climb down tree trunks headfirst! How amazing is that? 🙃
🐡 #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #WildlifeArt #WatercolorBirds

Flying Great Grey owl made with colored pencil

New technique for a more ghostly effect 👻🦉
Have you ever seen an #owl in the wild? Do you get what I mean by “ghostly spirit”?
Day 17: Great grey owl (because I forgot that before that there was the nuthatch 🫢)
🐡 #bird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #WildlifeArt #ColoredPencilArt

Water color of an Amazon Kingfisher I met. He was perched on the sailboat dock in Ushuaia (Patagonia) 🌎 — a restricted area unless you’re boarding a boat… and I was! ⛵ I was meeting up with Jeremy Villet, a brilliant photographer 📸, who, like me, had just returned from Antarctica ❄️. You’ve got to embrace the unexpected ✨ — the sailboat visit was meant to be the highlight of my morning, but instead, this surprise bird gave me a memory for life 💙

Picture of the king fisher perched on a rope of the sailing boat

Picture of an Amazon king fisher perched on a rope

This one brings back such an amazing memory 😍
All the story in the image description �
Have you ever had a special encounter with a wild animal? Tell me about your favorite one in the comments 👇�
🐡 #bird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Thank you 😊

Happy Costa's Hummingbird painted with watercolor and ink. I wanted to give this Costa’s Hummingbird 🩵 some personality - sleepy after a good pollen feast 🌸😴

A bit more stylized the today's prompt! 🎨
Do you also switch between styles sometimes? 👀
Which do you find harder — realism or stylization? 🤔
#Birdtober – Costa’s #Hummingbird #bird #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #BirdArt #WildlifeArt

Two gray herons painted in watercolor and black ink in a misty morning atmosphere during the golden hour.

The long neck of herons and egrets are soelegant! Perfect for harmonious lines in drawing 🎨
Did you know that herons fly with their necks folded, while cranes and storks keep them stretched out? 🪶
#Birdtober – #GreyHeron
🐡 #bird #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #BirdArt #WildlifeArt

Thanks ☺️ yes I want to see it in the wild, hunting a Puffin if I can choose 😁

You mean not in the wild ?

Black ink drawing of a cute gyrfalcon portrait.

The Gyrfalcon frustrates me so much 🦅! I’ve spent months in the Arctic ❄️, and I still DREAM of seeing one 👀.
Drawing it without having seen it feels almost like tempting fate 😬
#Birdtober – #Gyrfalcon #FalcoRusticolus 🦅🖤

🐡 #bird #Birdtober2025 #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Realistic watercolor of a male Kalij Pheasant

I had fun exploring the harmony of its curves and those metallic blue reflections 💙✨!
Such an elegant and fascinating bird to paint 🎨
Birdtober – Day 9: Kalij Pheasant 🐦🌿#sciart #bird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #KalijPheasant #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Realistic watercolour painting of a White-crested helmetshrike, with Indian ink highlights.

What's the difference between an orbital ring and an eye ring of a #bird ? 👀
The eye ring is a tiny ring of feathers around the eye 🪶, while the orbital ring is a patch of bare skin.
#Birdtober White-crested helmetshrike🐦
🐡 #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Thank you ! I've change 3 times in 5 years 😅 I hope you will find a signature that you like 🥰

watercolour painting of a male Diamond Firetail with black ink highlights

Noticed something new? 😏
I’ve made myself a new seal-style signature 🪶! Hope it doesn’t look too cheesy 🙈
Do you also struggle to find a nice artist’s signature? ✍️
🐡 #bird #Birdtober #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt

Black ink and watercolour drawing of a curious black redstart. Realistic and scientific drawing.

A little late 🫣! Here’s the Venezuelan Troupial 🐦 (#Birdtober -Day 2) with its stunning gaze 😍…
Who else is already in late for his/her during this first week of october challenge ? ☝️
#bird #Birdtober2025 #Inktober #Inktober2025 #BirdArt #ScientificIllustration #WildlifeArt