Julian R. Hough

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Julian R. Hough

Designer. Illustrator. Photographer. Using imagery and words to solve creative problems.

01/25/2024

Trying to find space in the maelstrom of life to continue to practice some painting. One of my favourite thrushes in the US, Varied Thrushes, are dazzling denizens of forests of the Pacific Northwest and remind me of some of the Asian zoothera thrushes more than the subdued-looking catharus thrushes. This vagrant first-winter female Varied Thrush skulked in Prospect Park, Brooklyn a few winters ago.

11/30/2023

Recently finished doing the design and photography (along with Paul Fusco) for the latest CT State of the Birds 2023 for CT Audubon Society.

Importantly the series of articles includes one very close to birders' hearts. An article by Yale researcher Viveca Morris highlights what some solutions are to keeping buildings safer for migrants.

05/01/2023

Needed a bit of a mental health day and checked out into some art. Juvenile Red-necked Phalarope, Hammonasset State Park, CT September 2022.
9" x 12" watercolor on Arches hot press.

06/09/2022

Listening to last week's Naturally Adventurous podcast on Texas: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2e42-texas/id1525204132?i=1000564383487
it brought back memories of my first trip to the Lonestar state back in 1987. Despite birding in several tropical countries, it is the only place in the world I have seen the localized Golden-cheeked Warbler.

02/07/2022

America's most famous eagle!

Steller's Sea-Eagle, Dighton, Massachusetts, December 19th, 2021. 9" x 12" watercolor and colored pencil.
FOR SALE
(Prints may be available. DM me).

One of the largest and most stunning eagles in the world, they reside in coastal areas of northeast Asia with only a handful of records in North America.

A wandering individual, first seen in Alaska in 2020, has been making headlines in the birding world. In the past year it has wandered to Texas (?), New Brunswick, Quebec, and Nova Scotia before it was discovered on the Taunton River in Massachusetts to the delight of hundreds of birders:
https://naturescapeimages.wordpress.com/2021/12/23/a-steller-day/

12/01/2021

Finished a couple of creative projects recently - hired to do the principal photography, layout and design (with Paul Fusco) for Connecticut Audubon Society's 2021 State of the Birds.
Articles in Connecticut State of the Birds are written by the best ornithologists and conservationists in the state and the region.
Due December 2021.

06/04/2021

Finally got around to working on a painting of the Black and White Warbler that's been sitting on the board for a while.
"Spring in Black and White", 9" x 12" mixed media on Arches hot press paper.

04/19/2021

Digging through a bin of artistic bits and pieces a while ago, I came across this plate I painted in 2000. Since I didn't really paint much back in those days, this probably represents one of my first authentic attempts at watercolor. It was commissioned to illustrate my article on the Identification of Cliff and Cave Swallows for the excellent, but now sadly defunct, Birding World magazine.

02/28/2021

From the winter Collection. Ivory Gull in snow.
8" x 10" on Arches Hot Press watercolor paper.

For sale

Chasing rare birds in the UK occupied most of my teenage waking hours. Rare waifs from the Arctic were highly prized. A British Ivory Gull had remained "blocked" for our generation of twitchers. On 2nd February 1986, at the tender age of 18, the gods delivered one to Saltburn-on-Sea, near Redcar. After navigating a scary white-out blizzard crossing the Pennine hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire, myself, Guy Shorrock and Simon Smethurst arrived before sunrise. I tried to catch some shut-eye, but suddenly, there on the beach, in the car headlights that penetrated into a raging North Sea storm, sat the unmistakable ermine-shape of an Ivory Gull. Good times. (Lawrence Middleton photo).

01/24/2021

Before I moved to the USA, American gulls (or "seagulls" for non-birders) were highly prized in Britain. I had already seen a vagrant Laughing Gull frequenting Newcastle General Hospital rooftops in 1983/1984, long before they were beach background noise, or opportunistically stealing sandwiches and french fries off tourists' plates while I waited tables in Cape May, NJ.
In 1991 this vagrant, long-staying, first-winter Laughing Gull was seen in Walcot, near Cromer, Norfolk during a Manchester Megalisters annual Norfolk Birds 'n Booze New Year's Weekend. :)

12/22/2020

Continuing to grapple with some of the demon qualities of watercolor and rendering bits of habitat! Trying to adopt a more loose style that watercolor demands and let go of my more detailed and tight illustration style - it is a hard habit to unlearn. ☺️

Watercolor #3. "Winter Watcher", Snowy Owl, Stratford, CT 2018. 12" x 9" on Arches Hot Press paper.

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