Rookery Editions asked for sixty cards of migrating birds and were very clear that they did not want cute. The design called for players to recognize a species across the table, in bad light, upside down, so silhouette did all the work and color did almost none.
I worked from field guides for the shapes and then threw the reference away and painted them from memory, which is the only way I know to keep a bird from looking stuffed. The cover watcher on the dyke was the last thing I painted and the first thing everyone mentions.
- Publisher
- Rookery Editions
- Year
- 2020
- Players
- 2 to 5
- Illustrated
- Cover, 60 card illustrations, box interior
- Editions
- English, French, Polish
Category
Card art
Box cover. Sixty species learned from field guides and then painted from memory.
The rough. The watcher on the dyke was not in it yet.
