Pedro Fernandes
Pedro received his training from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Scientific Illustration Graduate Certificate Program. For his ambitious internship project, he created two posters for the Lab’s NestWatch citizen-science project. Pedro painted 75 birds for this project, first creating a pencil drawing on Duralene paper, painting over it with gouache. He then turned the paper over and added detail using Verithin and Prismacolor colored pencils.
After completing his internship, Pedro taught scientific illustration and illustrated the Birds of the Azores. He is currently working as a freelance illustrator and residing overseas where he teaches and participates in urban sketching and science illustration workshops—and of course, continues to watch and paint birds.
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Online work
Watch this video showing Pedro at work on the NestWatch posters.
Gallery
Night migration illustration created for the Lab's Annual Report.
Two posters created for NestWatch, showing common nesting birds in the East (top) and West (bottom).
Mountain Bluebirds from the Common Nesting Birds poster.
American Robins from the Common Nesting Birds poster.
Tree Swallows from the Common Nesting Birds poster.
Blue Jays from the Common Nesting Birds poster.
American Goldfinches from the Common Nesting Birds poster.
"Corvid Behaviors" poster created for the Celebrate Urban Birds project.
Blue Jays from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
American Crow from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
Black-billed Magpie from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
Common Raven from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
California Scrub-Jay from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
Yellow-billed Magpie from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
Clark's Nutcracker from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
Great Horned Owl from the Corvid Behaviors poster.
Golden-winged Warbler created as a cover image for an invitation to Weekend at Sapsucker Woods, an annual event open to Cornell Lab Golden-wing Society members.
Western Bluebirds created for an article on cooperative breeding in birds.
Superb Starlings created for an article on cooperative breeding in birds.
Red-shouldered Fairy Wrens created for an article on cooperative breeding in birds.
Groove-billed Anis created for an article on cooperative breeding in birds.
Florida Scrub-Jays created for an article on cooperative breeding in birds.
Acorn Woodpeckers created for an article on cooperative breeding in birds.
Western Bluebirds.