May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It’s been a strange few days. First, there was this (see images below). I didn’t want to make a song and dance of it. The last thing I ever expected or ever anticipated was an actual response. Truly, I believed those days were long gone. That is why I finished my little reply by saying…
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It’s the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend in the UK. This involves participants observing their garden – or a local patch of nature – for an hour and recording all the different species (and highest number of each in one gathering) of birds in one hour. I will probably take part but I know already…
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Untitled – about birds…
Looking at eBay, I noticed this fanzine for sale (at a ridiculous price! Considering what most fanzines are like, and how they were produced). I could see that they were gracious enough to show what was inside with some low res pics (of an already poor quality printed magazine. Rare…but I would not pay £50…
I know! Simple Minds blog! But also…personal blog…art and hobbies blog. So! Here is some selected photos and a video of a male blackbird just outside the living room window this morning. Birds are just…the best!
Yep, still playing around with the new camera. The video it can shoot is just…wow! I had a parcel to collect from outside, and when I opened the door, the robin was there waiting for food. I fed him some mealworms, then grabbed the camera, put it into “movie” mode and this is what I…
He’s a WIP…on a 7 x 5 inch board canvas…
I think this would make the most beautiful painting. I want to paint him. I want to paint him SO much! I started prepping the background of a canvas for this with all the beautiful iridescent paints I have. But, I needed to keep the centre blank for him. I painted around a basic outline…
Now these are Australian magpies, not to be confused with European magpies. The European magpie is in the corvid family (crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, choughs, jays, etc), whereas the Australian magpie is a member of the shrike family and not a corvid. They, like many other birds, especially those of Australian species, still display incredibly…
Really not sure about that head shape! ? But it’s the first layer…a while to go yet. We’ll see…