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Learning by winging it
My college education included field #biology, with a taxidermy unit to learn the art of preparing museum skins. Not all collected specimens passed muster due to damage, but I used this wing of a blue-winged teal to study feather tracts, an important type of knowledge in #wildlife #art.
In some respects, an #artist looks at #nature from a different perspective than #science. Yet the relationship between #art and #birding, for example, is quite close. Some of the world's most important #scientists were also #bird artists; John James Audubon, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Roger Tory Peterson, and these days, David Sibley and Ken Kaufmann. Each studied #birds in this way, piecing together observations of live birds from field work and closer study of stuffed specimens. It's a lifelong #business being a working artist. You never stop learning.
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