Tawny Frogmouth

Yeah, I know it’s an odd title unless you are a bird watcher, run a zoo, or maybe just love owls a lot. But if you ran a zoo or love owls a lot, you’d probably be quick to tell me that Tawny Frogmouths are not owls. But anyway, there was a photo of a Tawny Frogmouth on Wikipedia’s Photo of the Day today, and it just screamed to me that it needed some Photoshop work.

Original image from Wikipedia's Photo of the Day rescaled to fit this site.

I didn’t know exactly what I’d do with it, but after playing with copy and paste, flipping the bird several ways, and some quick erasing, I finally starting layering the image and ended up with what I’m calling final. I didn’t want to spend too much time on it, and at just under five minutes (including a break for tea), I guess this one qualifies as perhaps a throw-up.

It's waiting on you to fall asleep.

If you look up the Tawny Frogmouth, you’ll find that the image I created really isn’t that scary. But I’m sure this bird I created, or the original, will appear in one of my messed up dreams soon.