Back view of fluffy grey and white hare, looking to left, with big black eyes and black points to it's ears.
#ArtDD2024
Mountain hare
How do these beautiful creatures survive such hostile weather?🤔
From a lovely 📷 by @mcbuckland.bsky.social, with thanks.
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Back view of a wading bird, with long red legs, red beak facing to left and brown back feathers.
#ArtDD2024 for the last time
Retreating redshank - turning his back on 2024, something I'm happy to do too. Tomorrow it's #ArtDD2025
Happy New Year!
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A watercolour of a bird looking for food among stones and seaweed. Dull grey, green, ochre colours except for the bird's vivid orange legs
Turnstone
The last #ArtDD2024 (4 years ~ #dailydrawing !) summarise a good day, a brilliant day, out with @drrjwarren.bsky.social on #Oare marshes in Kent 💚
May 2025 bring on #birds, #art & friendships🦉 💙 #bluesky
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Spot the heron 😁
On request @everyheron.bsky.social inspired by @mica10.bsky.social 📷
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
#heron #watercolour #ink
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December landscape
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
A cold effort to see some golden eagles yesterday (no joy). Grey day
#landscape #watercolour #fjärdhundra
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Painting of swan looking to left with black and yellow beak, white head and black eye.
#ArtDD2024
Whooper swans
White swans & misty, soft weather seem to go together.
Original 📷 @jcbirder.bsky.social with thanks. #birds 🦉🪶
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Photo of a Old barn in Upland north of Stockholm
Photo of an open, very large field with a forest in the background. The soil is dark and peaty (old wetlands)
Crested Tit
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Possibly my favourite little bird 🤔 Far from where we went birding today (no Golden Eagle or Snow Bunting)
Inspired by @btobirds.bsky.social 📷Kelman 🦉 #birds #art
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Portrait of a gamebird, looking to left, with hooked, short, red beak, brownish head, white stripe over eye, black stripe from beak to eye and down to neck, yellow cheek feathers and white neck.
#ArtDD2024
Red-legged partridge
Bit late for a-partridge-in-a-peartree, but here it is anyway😀
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📷 by @therealcurmudgeon.bsky.social with thanks.
Landscape with central river in the middle, grey/green between snowy fields either side. On the horizon pale grey trees, with a central clump of trees around which, to the left, the river turns and disappears.
#ArtDD2024
Misty, snowy landscape
Out on the marsh today the landscape was not snowy but very misty, just a blur of ghostly trees and hedges.
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Cluster of spaghetti-like anthers in pale yellow and brown, with two green pointed sepals to the left, and two pink and brown drying (and dying) petals to the right, on top of a green stalk.
#ArtDD2024
Dying rose
As the old year dies, I love the shapes and colours that aging flowers develop. This rose was at Sissinghurst Castle.
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Luna hunting mice
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing from a cold day in January
No snow now but Christmas is still in full swing
Merry Christmas everyone on Bluesky 💚
#watercolour #ArtAdventCalendar #25
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Posing Robin in James's park
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Three little quick doodle for #ArtAdventCalendar #23
#robin #watercolour
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Painting of small church, gable-end on, with snowy roof, standing behind a wall with 3 bare trees to the right, and surrounded by snowy fields. Grey stormy clouds above.
#ArtDD2024
St Baglans, Anglesey
From my archive.
Lonely little St Baglans dates from the C14th but the site is much older.
Now a jewel in the crown of the Friends of Friendless Churches friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/church/st-ba...
#ArtAdventCalendar
Old road bank and thunder ahead
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
I got caught up in the Christmas Jigsaw so a late doodle 😁
#ArtAdventCalendar #23 #bridge
Soon summer is back #svartånsmynning #watercolour
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Bridge across River Rawthey
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Long time since I drew a bridge. I've quite missed it. I miss even more the excellent walk starting here
#yorkshiredales
#ArtAdventCalendar #22
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Bird facing to left, perched on branch, with grey/green back, pale belly, coal black head with white cheeks and neck, and a tiny black beak.
#ArtDD2024
W is for willow tit
Using up some 50 yr old paper: found it's too old to absorb water, so had to pretty much scrub the paint on!🙄
#AlphabetBirds #ArtAdventCalendar 🦉
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Oystercatcher
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
They really have a firework bill
#ArtAdventCalendar #21 inspired by @mikepnature.bsky.social 📷
#oystercatcher 🦉 #strandskata ours are enjoying the southern sun
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Portrait of bird looing to left, with long thin black beak, white face and breast, black top of head and back of neck, black at top of back and wings. Orange eye.
#ArtDD2024
S is for (Black-winged) Stilt.
I'm doing 's' again, as I can't find a bird starting with 'u' for #AlphabetBirds 😂.
From a stunning 📷 by @wildlifeandtravel.bsky.social with thanks.
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#ArtAdventCalendar
What are YOU doing here?
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
A little portrait of Rusty
#20 #ArtAdventCalendar
#cat 🐱
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Roland
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Quick late doodle for #ArtAdventCalander #19 #cat 🐱
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Duck facing viewer and looking to left. Has pale, yellowish breast, grey shoulders and bright green and orange head.
#ArtDD2024
T is for Teal
In this case, a green-winged teal.
For #ArtAdventCalendar & #AlphabetBirds.
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Great Union Canal
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Moorhen 🦉
#ArtAdventCalendar #18
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Side-view of bird with dark brown wings, back & head, white belly and chin, body pointing to right but its head twisted to look back over its shoulder.
#ArtDD2024
S is for sand martin
Underrated little birds, migrating c.4000km (!) to Britain from sub-Saharan Africa.
For #alphabetbirds and #ArtAdventCalendar 🦉🪶
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Great black-backed Gull and Herring Gull on Oare causeway
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Say "greatblackbackedgull" quickly 😀
#ArtAdventCalendar #17
#bird #gull 🦉#oare
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Wading bird looking to left, chestnut breast with dark brown stripes.
#ArtDD2024
Black-tailed godwit
One of my favourite birds for #ArtAdventCalendar.
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Lydd Church and Great Egret
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Little drawing after a day in Dungerness marshes
ArtAdventCalendar #16 #egret
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Portrait of a raptor, looking to left, with grey hooked beak, yellow nostrils, blue/brown head, dark eye with pale stripe over, and speckled pale beck and breast.
#ArtDD2024
Merlin
Saw a lovely, tiny merlin today, flying low over the marsh.
For #ArtAdventCalendar.
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#birds
Oare marshes
#ArtDD2024 #dailydrawing
Lots of birds and beautiful sunlight today.
#ArtAdventCalendar #15
#watercolour #dinghy
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