There is an article on the Phylo Project in the Natural History Museum children's magazine Second Nature.


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Stipple drawing of a dung beetle from the New Forest (It's not quite finished):


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wieselkind took this picture of me a few hours ago. The location is the Dry Store room no.1. I'm standing in front of some of Ernest Shackleton's seals.


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I have ordered cocoons of Frog beetles. Lookit the shiny!!


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Today, just before work I walked to Green and Stone, the artshop on King's Road.

I don't usually shop there as it can be expensive, but I decided to treat myself as I hadn't done so in quite a while.

I got myself some spiffy new sketchbooks which I plan to do more Natural History drawings in:


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Please join belizebirdnhm if you haven't already. I'll be posting the rest there. This is the second specimen I drew. I forgot to take pictures of the first lot. It took me an hour to draw the first toucan on it's side, then 2 hours to make other sketches. This specimen, (1880, British Honduras) took less time.


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A 10 minute sketch with Prismacolor pencil of a Keel-Billed-Toucan. You may wonder why I'm sketching such a colourful animal in monochrome. The answer is before I start experimenting with colour, I want to get a feel for the shape and anatomy of the animal.


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I set up a journal for when I undertake the bird drawings. (There's nothing there yet, but I will likely be cross-posting between here and there.)
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I'll be drawing mostly bird skins like these:

(note the image of this bird skin collection is from the Smithsonian, but the NHM's collections are set up more or less the same way.)
( Behind a cut as it's a fairly large image )

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