Flamboyant-Green European Woodpecker

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 Foreground grass

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.
This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Robert was the host and provided a bunch of great photos!

 I have always loved birds ever since I was a young'un! This good looking green European woodpecker was a new species to me.

I enjoyed pushing the color in this one. I really had a good time experimenting with those foreground grasses.

C&C welcome. Thanks for taking a look and commenting!

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  2 Timothy 3:1   This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy

Wearin' Of The Green-African Gray Parrot

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

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Acrylic on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Valri was the gracious hostess. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

Valri challenged us to put something of Patty's Day into our paintings. So I did this African Gray, named Smokey Joe, and created a shamrock design as background. Plus a little green color into the plumage...thus, wearin' of the green.

This is standard fast drying acrylic. I decided it was easier to render all the variations of gray with washes rather than the thicker approach with Golden Opens.

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John 14^:12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

The Night Watch-Barn Owl

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the great host. Thanks for the terrific reference photos, Lin.

Here's a barn owl in oil on a 6x6 canvas panel.
I had fun pushing the color, laying the paint on thickly, and inventing a background.
Thanks for looking!

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John 14:11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

Winged Emerald--St. Patrick's Day

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my second submission to James Parker's Windows To The Words Challenge. This challenge is for March, so there's still some time to join in. Come on in...the water's fine! Check Mr. Parker's blogs out! You'll have a good time at his blogs!

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone! If this holiday had to adopt an official bird, I would nominate the hummingbird in all his fluorescent green glory!
I may have gone a little crazy with the color, but this painting said, "Go ahead!" Enjoy!

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^{Proverbs 11:2} When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Purty Birdie

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my submission for this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. The photo was graciously supplied by Valri.

My main objective here was just to not over mix the paint so when applied it would show fresh colors intermingling. And as the landscape painter may apply paint following the lay of the land, the "birdscape" painter must apply paint to follow the lay of the feathers.

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Proverbs 1:32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,and the complacency of fools will destroy them;33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm."

Raven #2

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.
This painting is from a photo graciously sent to me by a very gifted artist and super nice human being, Saundra Lane Galloway. Please check out her great blog!

This is in a very similar vein as the one I posted on Aug. 2nd. The first had a terrific response on eBay. One of the bidders asked me to do another raven which would be similar to the first. Let me tell you, it is difficult to emulate your own work! At least it was for me...how funny is that??!
Technically, Saundra's photo was of a crow, but since my first painting was a raven, I made this one a bit more raven-y by broadening the beak, etc.

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Proverbs 3:5-6. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

Raven

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my submission to the WDE this week. It is from a photo by this week's host, Mike.
I first covered the hardboard with black gesso. I enjoyed forming the raven by painting the negative space around it with the wild complimentary background colors.

Many, many, moons ago, I used to have a crow as a pet. Got him on a fishing outing. It was on the ground and couldn't fly well. Took him home and introduced him to Mom and family. I named him Crawford. Crawford was really entertaining with a large vocabulary of sounds and stunts.
Even though this is a raven, it sure looks like good ol' Crawford.

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psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you and watch over you.