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Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

African buffalo

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) African buffaloes are strong and imposing ...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Sketching again

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Black ink sketch and colour wash on Amedeo 200gsm I feel it's time for sketching again, have been neglecting it of late, been prefe...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Singing sweet songs, of melodies pure and true

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm ‘Rise up this morning, smile with the rising sun, three little birds sit by my doorstep...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Little White Dove

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm This is Little White Dove, a White Ringneck Dove I found in my garden a year ...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Guineas are winged wonders

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a guinea fowl molting polka dot feathers— handmade earrings W&N Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm After years of not seein...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

A handful of Southerly wind

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"And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse."    - Bedouin Legend   Pencil,...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Amethyst Sunbird female

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Black Sunbird feeding on the Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker) flowers in my garden (Tarl...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Guineas are back

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For the first time in many years (except for a brief visit in December 2013), I've had Guinea Fowl visiting my garden again. They eve...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Black-headed Oriole

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W&N watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm The Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus larvatus) is a frequent visitor to my garden (Tarlton, Gaute...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Guinea Fowl in my garden

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Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be in trouble. 
- Roger Tory Peterson Watercolo...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

View from my bedroom window

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Wishful thinking on my part! Two of my sketches framed by a window view. ::
Saturday, September 14, 2013

A Tabby superb!

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“With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of ...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

The way of the crow

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“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” -Rev. Henry Ward Beecher mid 1800’s W...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Gemsbuck (Oryx gazella) Gemsbok

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Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm 12″ × 8″  Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.  - Chi...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Icons of Africa

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W&N watercolour on amedeo 200gsm watercolour paper Two icons of the African bush - the mysterious and legendary Baobab tree and th...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Chameleon (Chamaeleonidae)

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W&N watercolour on Amedeo 200gsm  Chameleons are fascinating and amazing creatures, always popular with anyone who sees them. They ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Crow wears a silver band

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W&N watercolour on Amedeo 200gsm Cape or Black Crow (Corvus capensis) – endemic to Africa With thanks to John from Midmarsh Jotti...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The stately Raven

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Parker pen and Black Quink ink with watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Leopard on the rocks

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The leopard lingered in the sun Almost at close of day, With all its hours almost done And fast to ebb away… The leopard lets his memori...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

African silhouettes

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The shadows now so long do grow, That brambles like tall cedars show, Molehills seem mountains, and the ant Appears a monstrous elephant. ...