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Recent content by ozartist

  1. Noisy Friarbird

    Noisy Friarbird

    Commonly called Leatherheads. Length 29 cm.
  2. Little Friarbird

    Little Friarbird

    Length 26cm This is a juvenile.
  3. Striped Honeyeater

    Striped Honeyeater

    Gouache on Hot Press Watercolour Board
  4. ozartist

    My bird paintings

    Striped Honeyeater Just finished this little fellow. They have only just started visiting so I hope they will be regulars.
  5. Peregrine Falcon

    Peregrine Falcon

    Small to medium, raptor
  6. Noisy Miners

    Noisy Miners

    Noisy Miners are also called Mickey, or Soldier Bird and are common in Eastern Australia. Very social but aggressive to other birds.
  7. ozartist

    My bird paintings

    Thank you all, currently working on a Butcher Bird and also a Striped Honeater
  8. ozartist

    My bird paintings

    Peregrine I painted this one some time ago, and wanted to create a stormy atmosphere as I see Peregrines as very dramatic birds.
  9. ozartist

    My bird paintings

    This is an acrylic painting of just some of the Noisy Miners who live around me. They love the water and let me know very clearly when the bird bath is getting low!
  10. ozartist

    Sketches made in Photoshop

    This is a painting I have just finished. Just one bird, photographed twice at different angles at the bird bath, extracted and placed in the bush. (No way was I going to paint all those leaves!)
  11. ozartist

    Sketches made in Photoshop

    When I'm not painting or taking photos, I'm playing around in Photoshop. This bird I have extracted off the fence and placed him in a bottlebrush shrub. It's a very simple and quick way of seeing how the bird looks in a different environment, and checking composition etc. The method...
  12. ozartist

    New Member

    Thank you, and thanks for the warm welcome.
  13. ozartist

    New Member

    Hello everyone, I live just outside Brisbane, Australia and enjoy photographing birds just as much as I do painting them. There are many wild birds here, passing through or semi permanent, who give me lots of inspiration for paintings.
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