On our recent trip to Ireland, Husb and I began exploring The Burren in County Clare. We stopped at Doolin Pier to look at the slumped sedimentary rocks in the cliffs and the glacial erratics, massive rocks from far away, dunped on the ground by ancient glaciers. As I was drawing Husb near one of the huge erratics, I noticed loads of crow-like birds trotting around all over the place. I’m not a twitcher, I could tell they were corvids but couldn’t be more specific than that. They came up really close, making a ‘clicking’ sort of clucking noise and scrounging food. When I threw them some scraps of sandwich, they stored the pieces in their lower mouth and their necks swelled up very clearly. They completely distracted me from the landscape and I filled the paper with them instead. Like all the other birds I’ve drawn, they didn’t stop fidgeting!
I drew them into my A5 cloth-bound sketchbook with Faber castell Pitt drawing pens in various sizes. I prepared the paper with torn strips of brown wrapping paper stuck on with Pritt stick glue.
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As I was drawing crows in my own studio today … and listening to Aimee Mann, I decided to check my email and came across you drawing crows in Doolin in County Clare, a place I am very fond of …..what a coincidence…….regards Margo Banks
Thanks Margo, what a coincidence. It’s a gorgeous place 🙂
Oh Doolin! It`s been far too long since I was last there. Plenty of rocks to sketch about the place though!
It’s a fascinating place