Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

I was so excited to witness this kingfisher on the Moorabool River in Meredith, Victoria. This is the first time I’d seen a Kingfisher locally and was surprised at how small they are…since they look very much like a kookaburra I was expecting that they were a much larger bird. I photographed this busy parent flying from the nest where he had just fed a skink to the young hidden in the hollow of a gum tree.

The bird photographed was a sacred kingfisher but with a little artistic licence I have brightened, saturated and changed some of the colours beyond his natural tones.

I traditionally paint with oils but have used impasto acrylics here for a quicker drying time.
The sides of this painting are white.