New Watercolour; Great Crested Grebe

Evening Reflections; Great Crested Grebe (22"x12")

Watercolour on paper, again a developed field sketch from last year. Apalling weather here in sweden at the minute, it does at least help me to work on developing a growing backlog of fieldwork...

New Watercolour; Little Ringed Plover

Little Ringed Plover; Watercolour on paper (18"x12")

Developed from a field sketch posted here on the blog last summer....

Finished Painting; Autumn Woodlark

Autumn Woodlark; Finished Canvas. (30"x10") Acrylic Paint.

Detail from painting....

The latest finished piece, a Woodlark depicted in autumn grasses. Heavy use of paint by means of a pallette knife a feature of this piece, adds a lot of interest and helped me to avoid getting bogged down in detail with regard to rendering the grasses. Limited palette using just six colours including Neutral Tint and Titanium Thite. Raw Sienna, Olive Green, Cobalt Blue and Cadium Yellow the main pigments used...

Hobby and Emperor Dragonfly; New Painting.

Hobby and Emperor Dragonfly; Finished Painting; 36"x24"; Acrylic on Canvas.

Detail from the finished painting....

The bird blocked in over the sky...

The first stage complete. A couple of heavy coats of sky blue applied and left to dry before I went back in and added the cloud....


My latest painting, a fairly large canvas this one. The scene was inspired by my trip to Östra Styran a few weeks ago where I watched four of these brilliant little falcons hunting dragonflies over the reedbeds. Super sight and have wanted to paint it ever since.

Goldeneye Watercolour

Latest small watercolour; Goldeneye and Brood.

Developed from earlier ink sketch....

Blyth's Reed Warbler, 13th June 2009

Some of this morning sketches from Djurgarden of a rarity, my first Blyth's Reed Warblers. Two males have taken territory at the site less than 100 metres apart! Plenty of photos of the bird on the sister blog along with some notes on the birds key ID features...

Lates Sketches, 7th June 2009

Goldeneye mother and brood, compositional sketch from a thumbnail, this to be developed into a colour acrylic...

Woodlark

Hobby, from photographs taken in late May....

Hobby, from photos taken in late May

Red Backed Shrike, male bird.

Lesser Whitethroat page...


Some of my recent sketches here, working on developing the Hobbies further, the aim to produce a large canvas of these birds hunting. Goldeneye next on the list for canvas though...