So Fine

This work was drawn on wooden board with a beautiful tail feather from a male Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo feather. The feather was found by a friend and is rare indeed as are these amazing birds in the wild. The feather was in pristine condition but after being used as a quill to draw many of these stunning birds it is a bit worse for wear but still impressive.

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My art practice has been an ever undulating and diversifying journey that has recently led me down a path to drawing birds with their feathers. So if, on my wanderings around the local landscape, I find a Tawny Frogmouth feather I use that feather to draw a Tawny Frogmouth. I like the symmetry of the whole process and the uniqueness of each quill’s mark making. I work on paper and board with inks and/or oil colours. Sometimes I use a blade to scrape back some of the ink. My composition tends to be influenced by my interest in human portraiture and by my appreciation of the birds as characters with personalities. I enjoy the added textural effect of working on board or cotton rag paper.
I hope you enjoy the local characters I have captured as much as I have enjoyed creating them.