Good luck to you if you want to draw a bald eagle. Not just because of the ordinary reasons—the difficulty in capturing the jet and ivory feathers, the glinting eye—but more because of how many banal patriotic eagle renderings surround us. Bald eagles are in your wallet; they're jangling in your coat pockets on your quarters that you roll unthinkingly into soda machines; they're gilded on state capitols; they're on postage stamps and truck flaps. This omnipresence renders them all but unseeable, like a single raindrop in rain—and it's likely why the first time I saw a Kristen Lowe eagle, I felt like I had the breath knocked right out of my chest.

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