# Contemplation and a Carolina Wren

**URL:** <https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/contemplation-and-a-carolina-wren/370>\
**Category:** Share Your Art\
**Created:** [October 5, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/contemplation-and-a-carolina-wren/370 "2019-10-05T13:23:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ginny](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/ginny/32/94_2.png) [@Ginny](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Ginny)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/contemplation-and-a-carolina-wren/370/1 "2019-10-05T13:23:57Z")

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I have not been on here very much, lately. Boy, you guys have been busy! LOL! I have not, but here are a couple of things I have done, recently.

Mixed media on dark gray Canson Mi-Tientes pastel paper:

 ![Contemplation%20small](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thevirtualinstructor/original/1X/c5af64d78c7ed6fe40c36d23e3783cffefd000ba.jpeg)

Soft pastels on velour paper:

 ![Carolina%20Wren%20small](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thevirtualinstructor/original/1X/00aaf47326597544aba59be1a31f038c056fa7b7.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Maki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/maki/32/77_2.png) [@Maki](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Maki)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/contemplation-and-a-carolina-wren/370/2 "2019-10-09T00:51:16Z")

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Lovely works! Did you use reference photos for creating these works? I think taking a good photo of a bird is very difficult(so I rarely give it a try 💦). So if you prepared reference photos for the bird pastel work, you must be good at taking photos too. 👍

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**Author:** ![Ginny](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/ginny/32/94_2.png) [@Ginny](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Ginny)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/contemplation-and-a-carolina-wren/370/3 "2019-10-09T02:47:44Z")

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I’m pretty good at taking photos, but they are not of birds. I have to use a tripod and take my sweet old time. Birds do not wait for me. LOL! I got the bird photo from [pixabay.com](http://pixabay.com) and the photo of the girl from [pmp-art.com](http://pmp-art.com)

Thanks for the comment. 😃

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**Author:** ![jsteffey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/jsteffey/32/167_2.png) [@jsteffey](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/jsteffey)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/contemplation-and-a-carolina-wren/370/4 "2019-10-10T02:57:33Z")

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Very nice. I’m not good with a camera, but I have an ole classmate that is and she has given me permission to use any of her photos. She and her husband travel a lot and she takes lots of pictures. The Carolina Wren is beautifully done.