kestrel paintings (1 Viewer)

stirling

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• Sep 18, 2007

• #1

As anyone done any paintings or drawings of kestrels?
I will start it off with this one
Best from mike.

 

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John N

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• Sep 18, 2007

• #2

Congratulations Mike. You certainly have a talent for this sort of work. Very nice.

 

ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Sep 18, 2007

• #3

Okay one of mine

 

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matt green

Norfolkman gone walkabout

• Sep 18, 2007

• #4

Fantastic pictures so far, can't wait to see more from the others.

Matt

 

jomo

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• Sep 19, 2007

• #5

An excellent pair of paintings! Such sharp looking birds, no surprise they're a popular subject. Mine's already kicking around the gallery somewhere, but here she is again.

 

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Woody

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• Sep 19, 2007

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OK, here's a couple. They're really lovely birds and are probably the bird most responsible for my birdwatching habit. I became fascinated with them at a young age when watching them hunt over the area of chalk downland where I (mis) spent my youth. Strangely, for the first time in years, I was there yesterday with my son and I was talking about getting fascinated with kestrels when, right on cue, one appeared in the sky.

Woody

 

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stirling

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• Sep 19, 2007

• #7

ARTHUR BISHOP said:

Okay one of mine

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Lovely painting Arthur,,great perspective.
Best from mike.

 

stirling

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• Sep 19, 2007

• #8

jomo said:

An excellent pair of paintings! Such sharp looking birds, no surprise they're a popular subject. Mine's already kicking around the gallery somewhere, but here she is again.

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Very fine painting jomo,like the way you have placed the subject off center .
Best from mike.

 

stirling

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• Sep 19, 2007

• #9

Woody said:

OK, here's a couple. They're really lovely birds and are probably the bird most responsible for my birdwatching habit. I became fascinated with them at a young age when watching them hunt over the area of chalk downland where I (mis) spent my youth. Strangely, for the first time in years, I was there yesterday with my son and I was talking about getting fascinated with kestrels when, right on cue, one appeared in the sky.

Woody

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These two are spot on woody,i really like the portrait.
Best from mike.

 

Andrew Ellis

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• Sep 19, 2007

• #10

Here's one from a while ago. Should do a current piece of a British bird really.
Spectacular little falcon though the American Kestrel.

 

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spizaetos

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• Sep 20, 2007

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Having nothing new to post here, I decided to choose
Illustrations from the past depicting both of the European Kestrel species.
A couple of them are already known to many of you in this forum.
I hope you'll like!

Spizaetos

 

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stirling

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• Sep 20, 2007

• #12

Andrew Ellis said:

Here's one from a while ago. Should do a current piece of a British bird really.
Spectacular little falcon though the American Kestrel.

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Superb painting Andrew,so much detail.
Best from mike.

 

stirling

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• Sep 20, 2007

• #13

spizaetos said:

Having nothing new to post here, I decided to choose
Illustrations from the past depicting both of the European Kestrel species.
A couple of them are already known to many of you in this forum.
I hope you'll like!

Spizaetos

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Thanks for those spizaetos,really outstanding paintings.
Best from mike.

 

Keith Glasgow

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• Sep 20, 2007

• #14

I'll maybe get in trouble for posting photos of a captive bird, but I couldn't resist in the context of the thread. He's my bird, and quite photogenic.
He's the inspiration for a painting 'in the pipeline' at the moment - I just haven't decided on a suitable background...

Keith.

 

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stirling

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• Sep 20, 2007

• #15

Nice photos keith,look forward to seeing your painting.
Best from mike.

 

On-Firecrest

Stuck in a Rutt

• Sep 20, 2007

• #16

do i recognise the last lesser kestrel painting by spizaetos from a BB cover?

 

spizaetos

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• Sep 20, 2007

• #17

On-Firecrest said:

do i recognise the last lesser kestrel painting by spizaetos from a BB cover?

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Yes, that's right!
It was the November 2002 issue.
Can be seen also in my BF Gallery:
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/20497


Spizaetos

 

ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Sep 22, 2007

• #18

Its lovely to see the diff. styles . i would love to have them all on my wall.

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Sep 22, 2007

• #19

An excellent idea for a thread, will have to dig out some field studies that I did, as I don't think I have EVER done a painting of a kestrel. Must really do something about that!

 

stirling

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• Sep 22, 2007

• #20

nickderry said:

An excellent idea for a thread, will have to dig out some field studies that I did, as I don't think I have EVER done a painting of a kestrel. Must really do something about that!

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Look forward to seeing them nick.Very surprised you have not painted one.
Best from mike.