Black and White Sketches of stuffed birds

Did a few more sketches today  in the Zoological museum in Copenhagen.

The Zoological Museum is very quiet in the afternoon, after all the school kids have left. And I almost had the whole place to myself, with whales, snakes, turtles, dinosaurs and ice bears all around. Great place for sketching animals when it is snowing and freezing cold outside, like today.

I used most of the afternoon  studying the birds, surrounded by stuffed birds from all over the world, and with a few monitors playing short David Attenborough films for the birds.

I did around 10 sketches with ink, water and brushes.

Here are a couple of them:

a few sketches of birds

I really like owls and when I was young we actually had one of them living in our barn, and I can still remember how fascinating it was that the owl in there could fly right over my head, without making any sound and also when it turned its head all around and stir at me in the twilight with those big eyes.

Sketches of owls

Wonder where I will be sketching tomorrow…