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Drawing birds in the National Park of Linnansaary
Finland 2007
Francisco J. Hernández
Francisco is a spanish self taught illustrator and biologist. He was born in Posadas (Córdoba), in 1970. In 1996, he undertook his first collaborations as an illustrator for a guide of birds of Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinnea), and the book 'Birds of Odiel river marshes'. Since then, he has collaborated as an illustrator in several publications and has prepared significant amounts of interpretative material related to the preservation of nature. At the same time, painting has given support to an increasing interest for representing nature in each of its ways, with a special interest for birds. He is an active member of the Spanish Association of Nature Artists. Since 1999, he has combined painting with his work as a biologist in the field of the conservation of birds of prey, first in Doñana´s Biological Station (C.S.I.C.) and later for the Andalusian regional authorities, working in the conservation of the black vulture, egyptian vulture and between 2001 and 2007 in the reintroduction of the bearded vulture in Andalusia. Check out his website www.avestrazos.com and blog http://www.bublegum.net/avestrazos/. He has travelled to Mauritania, Scotland, Ireland, Finland and several spanish regions to draw and paint birds, specially to Pyrenees. He lives and work in Salteras, a small village in Sevilla (Andalucía).
"I travelled to Finland in July for 11 days. I lived and worked on a island, about 20 minutes by boat from Oravi (Savonlinna). At times I took a kayak around other islands to observe the interesting places and species. I had the oportunity to draw and paint different species, like a chick of Mew Gull (Larus canus) in a little rock against the light, behind of the rock, whith deep reflections of the forest on the water. Or a Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos), which was easy to see in the lake side, and little islands, as well as the White Wagtail (Motacilla alba). I saw other species, but these were more difficult to draw. All the sketches and watercolours were made fully in the field, with the help of my telescope, from the lake side or from little islands close to the side, which was accessible by kayak."
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