by Mindy Lighthipe | Feb 27, 2012 | 52/52 Challenge, Bird Art, Costa Rica, Uncategorized, Watercolor Tips
52/52 Painting Challenge – Painting #8 The Blue Crowned Mot-Mot For this painting challenge I combined watercolor with egg yolk. I took a class in egg tempera from American-born Suzanne Scherer and Russian-born Pavel Ouporov in 2004 at the New York Botanical...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Feb 1, 2012 | Animal Portraits, Bird Art, Costa Rica, Uncategorized
The Blue-Crowned MotMot Motmots are a family of New World tropical birds related to kingfishers. They can be found nesting in burrows which they dig themselves into cliffs Most motmots are medium-sized (robin size or larger).They are usually spotted sitting in trees...