Sumi-e Quail Long Sleeve T-Shirt

This simple, minimalist quail, in black and white color was painted in the sumi-e style, to capture the essence of the bird.
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Recently visited Sonoma and spotted these adorable and very quick moving California quails darting through the vineyards. I was enchanted.I've had a hankering to paint some ever since.
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This is not, of course, a traditional sumi-e, or ink wash painting, as I have used watercolor paints and paper, as opposed to ink and rice paper. Truly, it is more inspired by such works.
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The California Quail is a highly sociable bird that often gathers in small flocks known as "coveys". One of their daily communal activities is a dust bath. A group of quail will select an area where the ground has been newly turned or is soft, and using their underbellies, will burrow downward into the soil some one to two inches. They then wriggle about in the indentations they have created, flapping their wings and ruffling their feathers, causing dust...

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