Beach Feather Painting Studies

This winter on a trip to Florida, I found that there were many bird feathers scattered all over the beach.  With so many different seabirds and other land birds that reside in this region, I simply could not identify who's feather belonged to who?  Each day there, I would sit down in the sand to do an hour study in watercolor on paper or in acrylic on canvas board.  Below are a mix of photographs and six of my painting studies.

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