More Birds

Could not decide which way I liked the Heron most, asleep or open-eyed but I think I should have got him with fish, maybe next time.


Thought you may like to see these, this is what I have been doing recently instead of making cards. I have been so keen to have them on my craft room wall that again I framed them before photographing, thats why there is light reflection on them.

Thrush

I forgot to take a picture before it was put in its frame on the wall, makes it look a lot 'bluer' than it really is. This is not the actual frame that it is in that would make it take up too much space on here.

Fisherman's dream

This was an early attempt at a painting for a "funny" card for my son-in-law who is a keen fisherman.

The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

I'm on a roll now.
When we were first semi retired we decided that we would sell up and work half the year, summers in the UK and have the winters touring in our caravan abroad. Well we did not get abroad very much as we were often given more work covering for others who were taking holidays or asked to look after sites during the closed season which we never refused as we loved moving around this country, each place was like a holiday to us and of course we loved our caravan life.
At a particular basic laid back camp site we used to unlock the gates at 7am and creep back into bed for a cup of tea, while the kettle was boiling we hung a nut bag out and this bird used to sit sometimes alone, sometimes with his partner and devour a lot of the nuts while the squirrels picked up the ones they dropped and then would chase them off and finish the rest. I always tried to get a good picture of "spotty" as we called him but I am very happy with this picture that I painted.
Now we have been fully retired for 7 years (apart from voluntary work) we are catching up with our hobbies and making use of all those things that we put away - as many have "for when we retire".

Wren

I decided to paint this this afternoon as I wanted a change from making cards for a few days, but as is usual I have just had an order for cards, twins born today and wanted by first thing on monday, so its back to the usual and paints away.

Some of my Watercolours

We get many sorts of sail boats in the Solent, usually it is yachts of all shapes and sizes and occasionally a larger sail boat appears.





These are a few paintings that I have done, I am only a newbie with watercolours but at the moment I am trying to paint garden birds that are around here. We have an old Victorian ruin of a railway station that we look out onto from our lounge window and this had all these and more plus badgers, foxes and squirrels but as of this week it is being strimmed and cleared ready for the builders to come in, these birds will be disappearing from my view to be replaced with rooftops. Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!.