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A quick job ill put into scraps after i finish an actual decent piece.One of a 20 piece portfolio i have to produce for art class, my theme is Birds in different mediums. So far i have done graphite, coloured pencils, pastels, collage, pen with watercolours, scratchboard, oils, glass prints, etching in acrylics and this one which is masking fluid & alchohol with watercolours. tho the alchohol didnt work to well cos i only had one colour...
I'm on a bit of an owl binge, i saw the ads for a new movie coming out soon with photo realistic animation that had owls in it. I found irony in it however that all the owls seem to has Aussie accents while they are American species of owls
This doesnt have anything to do with that movie of course, i just wanted to do an owl
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they are very beautiful birds i agree
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Such a gorgeous owl
And the movie you are talking about wouldn't be Legend of the guardian would it? :3
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yeah im not too fond of watercolours, they are a bit too messy for me and its hard to fix up mistakes
Yeah that one, i dont even know what its about honestly, i just like the owls
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but if you get a lot of practice in them they can make great pieces.
XD me too, didn't the same people make that movie as the people that made happy feet?
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yeah they did, thats probably why the animation is so pretty 
I have seen some awesome watercolour paintings, still gets me how people can do it so well
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yep XD I really like how they do their birds, oh I didn't know that, well maybe.
I wish I could use watercolours, it would take lots of practice and experimenting I suppose.
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they are very pretty owls methinks, thanks for the comment
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They are indeed <3 awwweh... I didn't get to hold one today
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you work with raptors? i got to hold a variety of birds of prey at a raptor show and i just loved the barny, they are so light!
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Yeah I volunteer at a raptor center on Saturdays
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haha i could imagine the faces of those blood queezy people. I strip the flesh from road kill for skulls and put the heads in water to macerate which creates a delishious smell, my older brothers get very naucious at even the thought. Its quite funny how the only girl in my family has a tough stomache.
We only use mice and fish (fish for ospreys and sea raptors) at the raptor centres here as far as ive seen, dont think they use chicks here.
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Eww that's a little gross..
There aren't any Osprey at the raptor center, though we get them a lot wild. Oh, we mostly use chicks for meat, but we use quail and mice too. And salmon for the eagles
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haha most people agree that its gross, im quite into anatomy and biology of animals so you could say its a big help in learning the structure of animals, and trust me, it can make drawing accurately so much more possible.
Your eagles sound spoiled
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Wow I have never seen a kite!! I don't think we get them around here, but their really cool looking! Yeah our Eagles, ESPECIALLY MANWE, are spoiled 
I just started working with them, and I don't know if you remember but I am only 13 
And the raptor center is only a 45 minute drive away so it is fairly close!
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Haha kites here are the most populated birds of prey, i swear everytime i look up at the sky there is at least one circling if not more. Im not sure if Canada has black kites but they are distrubuted nearly world wide, defiantly they are in africa and europe anyway.
We have a white bellied sea eagle (many tourists mistake them for bald eagles actually even tho they arnt even related: [link] )here at the local bird display who gets a pond filled with live fish, which they get her to do a display and catch one, a very spectacular sight to see, but even better in the wild.
Yeah i remember you telling me that, i remember a little barn owl Stanley (or stacy?) that passed away too, had goregeous colours.
I might volenteer at the bird of prey display here when i get myself a car so i dont have to bug mum to drive me (its about 40 mins away as well), which wont be long since ive nearly got my driver's liesence
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Oh...I don't think I have kites in my part of Canada.. Turkey Vultures are the most populated. But everytime I am on the highway there is normally a red tailed hawk on a street light or maybe two. Bald Eagles are common as well
Awwweh! White bellied eagles are so pretty! But they look small... are they small? Compared to Bald Eagles? Do you know how big a bald eagle even is? Because our eagles are all big. Apperantly there are eagles the size of hawks!! 
Oh thats good!! Yeah my dad and my friends parents drive me and my friend up there. They take turns so one of them isn't driving every week!
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Wow turkey vultures! i have a thing for vultures, since they look so unusual. i saw a doco by david attenbourogh and he put a rotten steak out in the woods somewhere hidden under some dead leaves and it took like half an hour for a turkey vulture to find it, veeery good sense of smell hey.
They are the second largest bird of prey in australia, second to the wedge tailed eagle. They stand (females) about 90cm high and a wing span over just over 2m. I have no idea how big a bald eagle is, but im guessing they are pretty big.
Hehe i like his name, you guys should give him a helmet if he comes back
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Do you have any vultures in Aus? Yeah I saw two turkey vultures today during PE. If I am outside and I look in the sky there is normally one.
This is one of the owners at the raptor center with Manwe the bald eagle [link] Thats his size. Females are obviously bigger.
Crash.. yeah well.. You know what a peregrine falcon looks like don't you? They basically already have helmets hahha!
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nope, no vultures, the only "vultures" we get are called dingoes, if there is any roadkill its likely a dingo will find it
He seems as big as the sea eagles i get, but a larger head than our eagles in australia, more bulkier too.
Yeah i get peregrines here, it does look like a helmet now that i think of it, i always thought of them as hoods
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Awww but dingoes are cute!!
We have wolves, coyotes and foxs.. but not in my town, if I traveled a few hours there would be some! Well we have bears and cougars (:
Well yeah, hoods, helmets, safe thing
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thanks, just need some practise, im not professional yet compared to some people i know which make me so jealous!
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yeah it was an hour or so, veeery quick compared to my other works
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aw nice work! so you tried out masking fluid then? what did you think?
that new animated owl movie seems strange but interesting - some of my friends don't seem too keen on it tho when i mention it to them XD
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Its nice, tho i kept getting paranoid that the colour would get under it, was surprised when i got it off and it was so white! tho i think i should have done some dead trees or something in the background so i could use it more, but i already had the background blue in before i thought of that...
i dont actually know what it is about, i just got excited to see a movie with birds in it
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Wow great painting! I love your use of colours and the pose of the owl.
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thanks for the kind words
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