art

Over the last couple of years or so, I've been trying to learn how to sketch and paint, especially using watercolours. The results are very hit and miss. This is a watercolour I painted for my brother back in June. I am enjoying the huge learning curve. https://www.tomcharlesphotography.co.uk/

Doodlebug Art (Family: Myrmeleontidae) Doodlebugs are the larvae of Antlions.

Graphic illustration of a Galah

pyrography (wood and paper burning) and acrylic washes on paper from a reference photo I took at Mount Capulin in New Mexico, US 2017. 11"x14"

The Paradise-Sunbirds is a group of 6 large sunbirds species with a very restricted distribution in mountainous areas of Eastern Africa. They inhabit only in cloud forests and adjacent grasslands and thickets. 1 - Emerald Paradise-Sunbird, Ruwenzori, Uganda & DRC - 1700-2500 m / 2 -...

I sketched this Kestrel during art class at school. This is my first attempt at drawing a bird in a more realistic style, so it ain't great! I used 2b , Hb and 4b pencils and a kneadable rubber. Any constructive criticism would be much appreciated, I'm still very much a beginner. :)

A visit to Ice caves and photographed this in bird in picnic area. Was good reference to paint in water color

Long-crested Manucoda, 22 cm, Huon Peninsula, montane forests / Double-horned Bowerbird, 18 cm, South-east New Guinea, lowland and hill rainforests / King wattled Honey-eater, 20 cm, Bird's Head Peninsula, cloud forests / Helmeted Bowerbird, 15 cm, Central Highlands, upper cloud forests /...

Imperial Honeyeater, 22 cm - Solomon Island, lowland forests / Ruby-throated Honeyeater, 13 cm - Lord Howe Island, Australia, woodlands and thickets / Bare-faced Myzomela, 10 cm - Southern New-Guinea, lowland forests and woodlands / Giant blue Honeyeater, 30 cm - New Caledonia, lowland forests /...

Black Billed Magpie created from a photograph taken in Creede, Colorado. Korean title translates to "It's Tasty" or "It's Delicious"

Crescent Bird-of-Paradise (Bird's Head Peninsula, Indonesia - Montane forests 1800-2500 m), Horned Bird-of-Paradise (Southern Papua-New-Guinea - Lowlands and hills rainforests 0-1200 m), Tuft-flanked Bird-of-Paradise (Central Highlands, Papua-New-Guinea - Cloud forests and alpine thickets...

x9 " oil on canvas ( sold) trying to capture the tangle of branches I see them in outside my window

x9 " oil on canvas ( sold) trying to capture the tangle of branches I see them in outside my window

Pencil on A3

oil painting 5x7 oil on canvas

Acrylic, oil and different papers on canvas, 40x30cm.

This image depicts an orphaned robin reared in Folly wildlife rescue centre, Kent. It is part of a body of work I am undertaking to raise funds for rescue centres which take in baby birds each year. The full collection is on my website. You will see each bird is carefully photographed in a...

Mixed media on canvas, 20x20cm

This male Anna's Humminbird was photographed in our garden today. First I added the flower, then I oil painted it using Photohop's new CS6 filter>Oil Paint>using default settings>4,2.3,0.8,10,300,1.3

I'm just starting to study gulls at my local patch North Salmon Creek. I was amazed to find they actually pull off the mussel and swallow it shell and all, and other hard crustaceans too. I am also just starting to paint with gouache and find I really love it, I switched over for field work from...

I'm starting to be able to tell some of the gulls apart when I go out field sketching, and since I go to the same place all the time they are getting used to me and come close....I fell in love with this one gouache 5x8

Watercolour on paper, 28x43cm, Sleeping Birds Series, 2011. http://www.matteogrilli.blogspot.com

Here's a recent acrylic painting I made. It's really fun painting the raccoon's face.

Cash the Turkmenian owl from a photograph originally taken at Hagley Falconry Centre