Courting Crows - found 'em :)

Adult carrion crow (original drawing, sold)

Back in August, I started a new project, studying the local corvid species for a series of drawings and prints. It's been fascinating and turned up a few surprises. Last time I did a project like this, almost all the resulting images were of rooks and jackdaws, very few actual crows.

Juvenile carrion crow drawing (available to buy in the crows section of my shop).

This time I am on the North Yorkshire coast instead of Cornwall and the bulk of the birds are carrion crows. They are what people tend to think of when they think 'crow' - glossy black feathers in the adults, softer plumage in the yearlings and one of the larger corvid species.

Crow sat on a coast path sign (original drawing available to buy in the crows section of my shop).

All of these are drawings taken from my own photographs, I much prefer to work with subjects I know and it was lovely to be drawing birds I watched for a couple of days, getting to know different characters and studying the group behaviour.

All of the new crow artwork - these 3 and 30 mini drawings, will be on display at The Whitby Bookshop from the 19th to the 21st of November, then I'll be adding a virtual gallery on here along with more posts about my adventures with the crows.