Untamed Land

Untamed Land
Untamed Land

Friday, September 11, 2015

A New, Sort of Christmassy Painting

Been awhile since I got serious about painting. Not really discouraged, just busy with other things. This photo of a female Pine Grosbeak was taken about 15 years ago at the Eagle River Nature Center.
This male Pine Grosbeak was photographed about 4 or 5 years ago. I shot this photo on the same day that I got an excellent lifer in Anchorage, a Dusky Thrush, (Asian species). I only managed a few wretched photos of the thrush.
The new painting is much paler than the reference photos. I did'nt plan it that way, but paintings have a way of following their own course. It is 8x10". Maybe I'll call it, 'Sort of Christmassy'.

3 comments:

Jeremy Pearse said...

Lovely work as always! Great title too. Still hoping to see Pine Grosbeak - maybe I'll have to come visit Alaska one of these days.

john said...

Thanks for your comment Jeremy. Alas the Pine Grosbeak is our only grosbeak species. When I lived in AZ we had Evening, Blue, Black-headed, and occasional Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. There were even rumours of Pine Grosbeaks but I never saw one until I moved to Alaska.

John Holmes said...

Great to see the Pine Grosbeak pair united at last !

Your filing system is better than mine if you can find 15 year-old photos...