musket
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A quick acrylic color study of a very rare species from Guatemala and Belize, for a carving that never got off the ground. I didn't bother to mix up the dark slaty blue of the real thing, I just wanted to block in the color areas. From 1998 or so.
Eventually I darkened it up. The orange is actually the dry pigment Monte Amiata burnt sienna I mentioned in the Kremer Pigments thread.
OBFs are the most heavily armed of all falcons, with huge feet and massive beaks. The female's beak is laterally compressed with a doral keel, unique among falcons. Their flight feathers are even stiffer than a peregrine's and they have humungous pectoral muscles. They have a moderate facial ruff, like an owl. They exhibit the highest degree of reverse sexual dimorphism of all falcons-- the females are much, much bigger than the males, to an almost ridiculous degree. No one knows why they are so rare.
Eventually I darkened it up. The orange is actually the dry pigment Monte Amiata burnt sienna I mentioned in the Kremer Pigments thread.
OBFs are the most heavily armed of all falcons, with huge feet and massive beaks. The female's beak is laterally compressed with a doral keel, unique among falcons. Their flight feathers are even stiffer than a peregrine's and they have humungous pectoral muscles. They have a moderate facial ruff, like an owl. They exhibit the highest degree of reverse sexual dimorphism of all falcons-- the females are much, much bigger than the males, to an almost ridiculous degree. No one knows why they are so rare.
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