Dabbling along....

Anyone who's watched ducks knows that they can sometimes dabble quite vigorously. But here I'm just using it as a metaphor for my slow unhurried way with the duck sketches I'm including today. They're done at a slow pace, done when I've found a few minutes to slip in another sketch.

Today's dabbling ducks include Gadwalls and two Northern Pintails. My Gadwall photos aren't great so they'e a bit lacking in detail. I have a number of good Pintail photos that I took in October at Brigantine and Cape May so there will be more of them, hopefully showing some detail.

I think these are unhurried and unpressured because they are just studies. I hope to learn more about ducks as I do them. Eventually I'll try do more developed works in watercolor, charcoal or pastel. Then I'll dabble more frantically....