Illustration

Exquisite Watercolor Illustrations Celebrate Our Avian Friends

Golly Bard

Gol­ly Bard, aka Hol­ly Ward Bim­ba, has long been one of my favorite nature illus­tra­tors. Her exquis­ite works cap­ture the tiny details of winged crea­tures, with an approach that’s simul­ta­ne­ous­ly real­is­tic and styl­ized. Each piece is pro­duced with water­col­or paints, and she com­bines light wash­es with tiny, metic­u­lous lines—they real­ly bring out the feath­ers, don’t you think? (If you’re inter­est­ed in her tech­nique, she offers insight in her Water­col­or 101 blog series)

Gol­ly sells prints of her work  on Etsy. I like the idea of cre­at­ing your own cus­tom “flock”—collecting sev­er­al of her pieces and dis­play­ing them together.

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