More Museum Sketches

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 Canoptic jars from ancient Egypt at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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 Great Black Backed Gull, Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and gouache

Always love a trip to the museum to sketch. Satisfies so many of my interests, art, sketching, archaeology, ecology, ornithology, paleontology etc. All wrapped up in an enriching, enjoyable environment.

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 The falcon headed Egyptian deity Horus.

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 Common male eider duck. I don't think he's common at at!  He has such beautiful subtle colors, like the pale green on his head.

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 This was a second trip to the museum with the Connecticut Sketchers Group. Fabulous afternoon indulging my new fascination with bison.

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And what's a trip to the natural history museum without sketching some of the amazing dinos and extinct species!