Superb fairywren
#fairywren #wrensday #birds

Bar Beach Newcastle
Wax pastel in
8 x 10 in sketchbook
#art #barbeach #pastelsketch

Merewether beach
Wax pastel sketch in 8 x 10 inch sketchbook
#merewetherbeach #pastel #sketch #art

Thanks John. Drawing the ocean is new to me, having fun playing at it on the beaches.

Clovelly beach in Sydney
Colored pencil, wax and oil pastel in 8 x 10 inch sketch book
#pacificocean #ocean #clovellybeach

Showdown at the Suet
Scar-faced Blue Jay facing off with a Harry Woodpecker to determine who will get the last of the suet. The Harry woodpecker took the prize.
#birds #Showdown #birdbattle

Mamma Mallard and duckling
#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme #movement

Mourning Warbler
#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme #songbirds

Mourning Dove
#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme #lookingatyou

Red-necked Phalarope
#Birds tad late for #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections

Black & White Warbler
#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme is #stripes

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Ruffed grouse
#birds #birdoftheday #headshots #ruffedgrouse

Spotted Sandpiper on the dock
#birds #birdoftheday #ontheedge

Winter Wren in Red Pine
#birds #wrensday #wren

Rock pigeons
Female was injured male stayed by her side

#birdoftheday #Mr&Mrs #birds

colourful male yellow-bellied sapsucker clinging to a tree while he pecks away at the pattern he is creating

12 x 16 inch gouache on paper
Sapsucker obsessively working on his pattern
#birds #sapsucker #gouache

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At the Dip in the Road
12 x 16 inch oil on panel
This spot has been on my to paint list for several years. Not quite the view I had in mind but with the challenges that guardrails and curves pose this had to do.
#pleinair #landscape #oilpainting

Ruby-throated Hummingbird hanging out on the clothesline
#birds #rubythroatedhummingbird #birdsintheyard

Airport Road Marsh
12" x 16" oil on panel
#pleinair #landscapepainting #marsh

Ruffed Grouse strutting its stuff
#birds #ruffedgrouse #birdsintheyard

12" x 16"
An Artist Friend
gouache on paper
#art #gouache #portraitpainting

Grackle on Fencepost
#birds #grackle

Chestnut-sided warbler
watercolour pencil and gouache
making bird images lately
#art #birds #warbler #gouache

Spotted Piper resting on the dock
#birds #spottedpiper #birdsintheyard

ink drawing on woodblock
before cutting of woodcut
#art #woodblock #woodcutdrawing

Boris and Company
Rock People series
#art #rockpeople

Sandhill crane getting bombed by red winged blackbirds protecting their nest
#birds #sandhillcrane

Veery
Chanced upon this guy finally.
#birds #veery

Vine on Stone Wall Carcassonne
6 x 8" wax pastel sketch
#art #pastelsketch #vine

A family of Canada Jays hung around for three weeks prepping the young for survival. The young still asked to be fed even when they obviously gathered their own food. Very nurturing parents
#birds #canadajays #birdsintheyard