America's Bird ~ the Bald Eagle

8x8 watercolor on 140 lb cold press paper completed today for an online challenge featuring the bald eagle, America's symbol of freedom.  As this raptor flies over its territory I wonder what it thinks as it looks below. Photo courtesy USDA.
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Raptor Reflections

9x12 watermedia (Brusho, gouache, watercolor) on Canson 140 lb cold press paper done this afternoon.  I wanted to paint this hawk again from a previous time and was inclined to experiment with Brusho again.  Using brown and black bottles of the crystals, I sprinkled them onto spritzed paper then colored in his eye with puddles of pigment.  Background was yellow, black and green.  Gouache was used to add white highlights and reflections in his eye.
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