Don´t ask me why, but I´m totally into painting birds these days, so expect to have some feathered friends flying your way in the coming weeks. 😉 This is a water color painting of a Hyacinth Macaw, a parrot that is native to central and eastern South America. With a length of about 100Continue reading “Hyacinth Macaw”
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A Pair of Puffins
A Pair of Puffins (acrylic on canvas; 30×24 cm; August 2016) Thanks to cutting back a little from blogging, I managed to finish my latest painting – A Pair of Puffins – that I started a couple of months ago! (Usually it takes a month per painting.) Puffins are one of my very,Continue reading “A Pair of Puffins”
True Grit
True Grit (acrylic on canvas) There´s a huge vine climbing beside my kitchen window where the bluebirds build their nests every spring. Unfortunately we´ve got a nasty little gang of young magpies as well here (don´t get me wrong, they are beautiful but you´ll soon see why I don´t like this particular group).Continue reading “True Grit”
“Just give me some fish, will you?”
As you´ve seen on earlier posts, I´ve got a weakness for birds, especially when it comes to drawing them. But every once in a while, I just can´t resist, and have to form them in clay, as well:) This little fellow is supposed to be a Southern Rockhopper Penguin, although I have to admit, theContinue reading ““Just give me some fish, will you?””
Bird of Prey
Hope this will become a painting one day…
Do we really have to go?
Here a little sketching of young Common swifts (Mauersegler; lat. apus apus, which derives from Ancient Greek and actually means “without feet”, ´cause they have really short legs, which they only use for climbing), doubting wether they should leave the nest…:)
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