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Megan O’Connor 🍁

@meganoconnorart.ca

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I draw wildlife with coloured pencils using my own photos and observations as a reference (unless otherwise stated). Toronto, Canada. https://meganoconnorart.ca

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 13h

“The Petty King” is finished. Coloured pencil on hot pressed paper. The bird is a goldcrest, whose Latin name is regulus regulus :) #birds #birdart

Coloured pencil drawing of the stone statue of a dog with a crown-shaped collar and an uplifted paw. A small brown and yellow bird with an orange crest is perched on the paw.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 1d

Thank you! Hopefully by the end of the week …

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 2d

🙏❤️

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 2d

Thank you for the post 🙂

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 2d

Thank you 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 5d

Haha — thank you! It’s a bit of a departure for me; I don’t tend to use such pretty colours. But I just went with it 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 5d

Oh, I haven’t got to the point of adding a link. I have been arranging sales via email (which is on my site). I.e., I haven’t got the marketing angle fully sorted out 😏 One day!

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thanks!

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thank you 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thank you ❤️ I only just finished this one so haven’t put it on my site yet. I do sell my work, though at the moment it depends on where. E.g., it’s a bit tricky selling to the US right now (I’m in Canada).

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thank you!

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thank you!

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thanks 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

Thank you 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 6d

“The Last Day of Summer”, coloured pencil and watercolour, based on the last hummingbird I saw of the season — a young ruby-throated — before they all migrated. #Birds #WildlifeArt

Coloured pencil drawing of a small green and white bird with its wings forward as it hovers over wild plants and grasses.

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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 7d

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 9d

Thank you 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 9d

Work in progress. I decided to use watercolour for the grasses and pencils for the hummingbird and larger plants — to get the coolness of an early morning in late summer. #Birds

Unfinished coloured pencil drawing of a small green and white bird with a long bill, flying over the tops of grasses and flowers.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 12d

Somehow “the back of a napkin” sounds more romantic than “a scrap of printer paper”. Ah well. In my mind, at least, the drawing is already vivid 😏 #BirdArt

Rough pencil sketch of a bird hovering above some flowers. Really, that is what it’s meant to be!

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 14d

Breath would be very hard to draw! Thank you :)

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 16d

Thank you 🙂

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17d

Thank you :)

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17d

Thanks :)

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17d

What a gorgeous pup! Thank you :)

Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17d

Am at the restless but still exhausted stage of illness. I miss the ravine 😭 But, housebound, was able to finish this portrait of my dog in record time! Coloured pencil on hot pressed cotton paper. #bordercollie #dogportrait

Coloured pencil drawing of a black and white dog with amber eyes and a long pink tongue.

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