Welcome to this blog, which is where I show my art work, which is mainly focused on birds and falconry.
I work mainly in oils on portrait quality canvas, and use only top quality materials, i.e., those paints and oils which will not fade or discolour. Pencil and graphite are also featured, with a pencil work sometimes being made as the study for a more detailed work in colour.
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Painting in progress: Pale Male the Red-tailed Hawk
A scan from an HP scanner, so quite a bit grainy to my chagrin; Pale Male, the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) of Central Park fame. Will work on it some more, thinking of keeping the background sedate and the tree mainly grey.
I am an artist specialising in birds, mainly birds of prey. Presently most work is in oils and pencil, and I will take 10 years or more on some pieces. This way I can put more soul into them, but of course this also limits output. What I like to capture is expression and natural features, sometimes a sky scene or a single rock will have prominence. The relationship of the creature to its environment is important, it sets a tone of its own. In many compositions a Hitchcockian feel exists, the grey sky, a bare, single tree, corvids whirling around in a menacing way, and quite often a raptor. Majesty and melancholia come together; the loneliness of the long-distance bird is meant to be felt as well as its regality.
I started painting some 40 years ago when as a child a drew boats swaying in the tide on the Bosporus, studied in New York, and have exhibited in Jacksonville, Florida, and in London at the Arts Club.
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