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Not really sure about this, I've been through 100s of variations of background colours & shapes. I think this is my favourite so far, but just haven't hit on the 'that's it' yet I don't think...

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2020-05-30

A small oil painting of a Blue Tit from my garden. Wishing everyone a very Happy Weekend!

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2020-05-09

I'm really pleased so many people enjoyed the Song Thrush drawing I posted. Say hello to today's drawing of a lovely inquisitive Blue Tit, I've also attached some close up detail images to

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2020-04-13

Here's my drawing of the Song Thrush with colour. I decided to draw a series of our most loved over the next couple of months (not doing much else) I find the process quite meditive and distracting as their song enters our house and I watch them through the window

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2020-04-11

Today’s postcard is a busy little wren who is building a nest somewhere very close to our bathroom window. Wrens hold a special place in folklore in the UK which includes being crowned king of the birds!

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2020-04-04

Collared Dove checks out the feeder

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2020-01-19

One of three birds I completed yesterday. If I am not mistaken, the species is a Brewer's blackbird.

Watercolor and ink on mixed media paper. A4 size (8.3 x 11.7 in). For sale.

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2019-11-24