Poor sweetie :( Pretty cool you got to see one so close though!!

This is absolutely gorgeous! I see great blue herons fairly often and I just love them so much. Your values/contrast are perfect, I can learn a lot from this. Did you draw this from a taxidermied model?

You are The Brush Wizard so I believe in you!! I'll keep an eye out ^^ Thanks!!!

That brush is so cool WOW!! and your mark making is so smooth and flows so well. By chance do you have this brush for sale for CSP?

I'm eternally amazed by artists who can do stippling, especially as well as this! The shading is so soft and lovely.

I love this! Your mark making is so cool and everything blends in such a lovely way.

Keeping an eye on this thread 👀 I would love an insect reference book too, all my books are mammalian/human anatomy.

I swear there are sentences concocted on twitter that you'll never see anywhere else. Its wild lol. Bluesky feels humorless sometimes imo. Much much kinder tho, which cant be said for twitter looool.

Miss you so much Poppy. I hope that you're happy to be reunited with my grandma up there (she just passed away few weeks ago just shy of 100 years old). Keep flying high.

www.af.mil/News/Article... Here's an article about when he visited Normandy with other vets, including some of the few surviving members of his flight group (only 7 survived the war including my grandpa). You can see him in the first photo in the center and spoke during the ceremony. He met Obama!!

I only learned about his whole story years after he passed when I found a recording from the Library of Congress where they interviewed him. He lost a wing and landed it at one point, no injuries! And after the war ended he went back to running a kosher meat plant and never talked about it.