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meganoconnorart.ca
I draw wildlife with coloured pencils using my own photos and observations as a reference (unless otherwise stated). Toronto, Canada. https://meganoconnorart.ca
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Work in progress: I’m drawing a young great blue heron who has been fishing in the local creek recently. The colouring is very subtle, which is a good challenge :) #Birds #SciArt

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

If I’ve not been posting much art lately, it’s because I am trying to understand the settings on my camera. I need better reference photos! It’s a … learning curve … but I am determined 😄 Photo of a young great blue heron. #Birds #WildlifePhotography

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Even common dragonflies, like this twelve-spotted skimmer, seem invented by an eighteenth-century polymath. #WildlifePhotography

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m trying to convey the sense I had in Rome that even the birds live between layers of history. Based on photos I took in churches around the city and on the Palatine. Work in progress. #BirdArt

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know what this downy woodpecker is doing? Moments before, he had brought green inchworms for his chicks (I could hear them inside the tree); he went into the tree, gave them their food, and came out with this. Housecleaning? #Birds

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Finally! I keep hearing black-throated green warblers but never seeing one. Today I managed to get a photo :) #birds

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

“Nostalgia”. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. #BirdArt

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

My Lyra got an award :)

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

I decided to draw a whimsical picture based on some photos I took earlier this month in Oxford, UK (specifically, in Magdalen college cloister and a friend’s back garden). I used to think that the best way to relax was to draw wood. I was wrong: it is old stone! #BirdArt

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

A closeup photo of my favourite fountain in Rome. #WorldTurtleDay

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I heard this blue jay mimic a red-tailed hawk so well that it deceived the Merlin app! #birds

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Last week a man told me that I don’t need a long lens to photograph birds; all I need to do is walk up to the bird to get a better shot. Well, I tried it today … and darn and blast, the bird flew away 🤷‍♀️

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Red-breasted nuthatch. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. I used several of my own photos for reference but want to thank Linda MacMillan for the use of her nuthatch photo which gave me details that mine lacked! #Birds #SciArt #WildlifeArt

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments