Feather No. 1

'Fragile'

A very lovely artist friend of mine, who has also exhibited 

at the same venue my exhibition will be at, has kindly 

loaned me a wonderful stand to display small unframed

works. It fits 15 10 x 8 matted pieces. Catherine filled hers 

with exquisite little watercolour and airbrush birds. As I 

am challenged when it comes to painting small, I thought

I would paint feathers. My friend also has a large collection

of feathers, which she very kindly photographed for me, 

and I also have quite a few of my own. The above feather

is a real treasure, found on a dog walk recently. These 

poor birds are suffering very real pressure from habitat loss

and their numbers are dropping alarmingly :( We still have 

a quite healthy population locally but who knows how long

for. Anyway, you can see I took some artistic license with 

this one!

Carnaby's Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
Male Tail Feather