Birds
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Bird Tile
These tiles were almost ubiquitous in Britain in the 1970s – my parents house built at the start of that decade had them on the bathroom walls, and the house I am currently living in (coincidentally also built in the early 1970s) still has these tiles on the walls of one bathroom! As I was…
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Gull Escort
Our boat trip on the Bosphorus was escorted by a number of gulls, most of whom flew for ages within a few metres of the boat. Of course, gulls being gulls, this wasn’t exactly an altruistic gesture in their part – several of the passengers on our boat kept throwing pieces of bread to the…
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Flamingos
I have seen flamingos several times in bird parks and zoos, but I had always understood that they were native to some far-flung and exotic continent, like Africa perhaps, or one of the Americas. So it was quite a surprise to see them in the wild on the coast near Montpelier. I know they are…
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Milky Stork
We saw this chap in the Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur, although since I have elected not to paint any background I suppose the exact location is not really important. I have always been impressed at how bold pictures can be created using very few colours. Initially I guess this was done to simplify the…
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Seagull at Scarborough
This bird settled close to me as I was eating a sandwich, and started eyeing my food rather hungrily. I quickly finished my lunch and then (by way of “retaliation” I suppose) I took a photo of the bird before it flew off. This “painting” was done with a drawing app, in this case with…
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Ostrich
To drawing something, it is of course necessary to figure out where everything should go on the paper – the relative sizes of the objects in the scene and how they all fit together. So it was that when I drew this ostrich I was quite surprised to discover just how small an ostrich head…
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