The Art and Exploration of Creating a Bird Book

Keith Hansen is a wildlife artist who specializes in the inspirational and accurate portrayal of birds.

His most resent endeavor has been a 14 year project illustrating the book "Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status and Distribution", authored by Ted Beedy and Ed Pandolfino. He illustrated about 1,400 portraits of the 320 species that occur annually somewhere, anywhere, and everywhere in the Sierra. He will be talking about the production of his illustrations and the birds themselves.