Another Wonderful Inuit Caribou Antler bird handmade book blog/2019/08/24/the-agreeable-occupation-of-imitating-nature)

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and then tapering as it extends downward along the side of the basket

Watercolor/gouache color is very rich

drawn in graphite I believe and perhaps erasable

Another Wonderful Inuit Caribou Antler bird handmade book blog/2019/08/24/the-agreeable-occupation-of-imitating-nature)Theres a dealer in New Hampshire I visit who has been putting these Inuit carved antler birds out one at a time for me to find, and this is the last of them. I love how these are all about the natural curves of the antler bone, Caribou I believe, with minimal interventions to render them as birds. I find this one a great combination of elegant and awkward, with its long neck, inked eyes and hooked beak reminding me very much of a root head decoy,