NEW BOOK: "Heron Drawings"

 I've designed and published a book of drawings of Great blue herons. It looks really good (if you like art, books and long legged prehistoric looking birds).

Get it here.

"Heron Drawings" by Rob Dunlavey
163 pages, 8 1/2 x 11" $12.00 + shipping
paperback, full color

From the introduction:

"It got me wondering how many herons I’d drawn over the years that I might offer her. They all deserve better homes; many are deep in the pages of sketchbooks or buried in stacks of loose papers, along with other landscape drawings. So I sorted through my computer files and have put together this catalog of any image with the word “heron” in the file name. As of September 2020, I have made about 480 drawings."

Low Water

The Charles River is low this time of year. The flow inches up and down depending on rainfall but it's typical in September to see just a trickle of water flowing over the dam. The mallards love it. They congregate in the hundreds some days dabbling in the shallow, algae laden pools and preening on top of the dam. Soon enough, cold weather and ice will settle in and the ducks will look for more dependable open water. So, I draw them while I can. By March of next year I'll be "duck-starved" from having only water, ice, snow and bare tree limbs to draw all winter.

09-11-20-ducks03
pastel, ink

09-14-20-dam
pastel, ink

09-20-20-dam02
pastel, ink

08-03-20-dam
ink

09-20-16-dam
pencil

08-31-16-dam
colored pencil, ink

07-18-16-dam
ink