day three-hundred-and-thirty - barn owl

i am loving this whole changing-the-levels-of-only-one-part-of-the-picture thing

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yeah?

this is pretty much the revers of my snowy owl drawing, but i still love it. actually i love that one too. maybe i'm just most excellent at drawing owls?

i cannot write another word (ignore those to come, i guess?) because i've been doing uni junk ALL DAY and i am sore and tired.

xj

day two-hundred-and-eighty-four - snowy owl

watch out for his bear feet!

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some may say i bumped up the levels too much. i may say that it makes it looks snowy and thus appropriate and thus awesome (i do say that. i just said it)

it looks pretty cool but also ridiculous. that's good enough for me. how about you?

much better than this weird drawing on the snowy owl wikipedia page... not that i go to wiki for animal information of course. i go to my brain. and to attenborough.

all you need to know about these owls is that they are the official bird of quebec, and are therefore awesome.

you may also wish to know some facts from nat geo:

they are likened to ghosts (in that they haunt people and you can walk through them)
they love fighting wolves (they love it. or maybe they just love defending their stupid owl-children)
their scientific name bubo scandiacus suggests they may have once been the source of the bubonic plague. or maybe not. i don't speak other languages

and interestingly enough, while snowy owls love to eat lemmings, they don't care much for the game. must be hard to control a mouse with claws.

xj

day two-hundred-and-seventy-eight - burrowing owl

burrowing owls have long legs. they are also tiny - so tiny you can hold one in your hands. or on your hand as it were. incidentally that is the cutest. owl. i. have. ever. seen! so cute it makes me rife with periods... or full-stops if you are that way inclined (non-americanly inclined).

anyway, on to the owl(s)!

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i love this! i painted a green one too but he looked terrible, so thank my cropping skillz. except i just told you about him anyway - but that is my stupidly honest nature i guess.

i think i will try to do this more, because it doesn't require watercolour skillz only the ability to blob colours on a page... pretty much anyway

burrowing owls are great though, they can look super cute (as seen above), crazy, intimidating, or just plain awesome. and although they are still night-hunters, they are quite active during the day, which has them other owls beat.

xj

day one-hundred-and-eighty-three - 2tally p4wned

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i have nothing to say about this

xj

day sixty - snowy owl

finally! a drawing without blue scanner lines! hang on...

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wasted opportunity. thanks a bunch lined paper.

i love lots of things about owls, but what i love most about snowy owls is their reverse-ageing. the chicks look like withered old man-owls while the grown-ups are all smooth and shiny.

it's either that or their slipper-feet.

xj

day twenty-five - meh

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sorry. this is all you get because today: my dog ran away, my wallet was stolen, i lost my job, i had to wash my hair, i was in a car crash, i had a funeral to attend and i had to go to hospital. (two of those are true... well three, but i didn't NEED to wash my hair)

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i only drew the right page in the first picture today. the others are lunch-time doodles of the week.

i'll cover my penchant for animals riding other animals at a more opportune time. g'night.
xj