Hinau Huia
SOLD NZ $1220
This Piece will be located in Los Angeles after lockdown 2020. Huia have been extinct since the 1920s but that hasn't stopped people creating beautiful artistic impressions of these birds! Here is my impression using reference images created by Wayfarer International and Dr Fiona Pardington. As you can see female and male Huia were dramatically sexually dimorphic in beak size and shape, the female having the longer curvier beak.
Ref @nzbirdsonline
Materials: Polymer clay on rectangle plywood
Size: 400 mm x 500 mm, 44 mm wide