“Peregrine Falcon” 

The original is drawn in pencil and white conte crayon (highlights) on a blue toned board. I drew this from a stuffed specimen from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton, Massachusetts and from photos of live Peregrines. At the time I was interested in drawing a series of birds of prey and the Peregrine being mostly gray and white, fit perfectly with the technique I wanted to use. This technique is a very careful and time consuming rendering. I wanted the Peregrine to be lit up from underneath as it might be at dawn while standing on a high cliff or tall building in a city.

Richard Salvucci is originally from Boston, Massachusetts and now living in Athol. He attended Massachusetts College of Art, earning BFA in illustration. Richard has exhibited with and produced artwork and illustration for Massachusetts Audubon Society, Manomet Bird Observatory, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and The Norman Rockwell Museum as well as book and magazine publishers. In 1985 he produced a drawing of two chimpanzees for The National Alliance for Animal Legislation which was awarded to Dr. Jane Goodall as an award for her conservation work involving chimpanzees.

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