Birds

 

The Last Day of Summer [SOLD}

The Old Hydro Line

Dark Blue

Coloured pencil drawing of a large grey and blue bird in a hunched sitting position.

Great Blue Dawn

colour pencil drawing of a small brown and white bird with a spotted chest perched on the broken branch of an old coniferous tree.

Hermit Thrush

Coloured pencil drawing of a small blue and orange bird perched upside down on a dead tree.

Sitta Canadensis [SOLD]

Coloured pencil drawing of a large brown and white owl in a mossy tree.

Let It Be

Blue Valentine

Coloured pencil drawing of two hawks against a watercolour background.

Now We Are Fledged

Junco in January

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coloured pencil drawing of two grey and buff-coloured birds with black caps against a background of grey foliage.

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Coloured pencil drawing of three small blue-and-orange birds on the cones of a spruce branch.

Three Nuthatches [Private Collection]

Coloured pencil drawing of a brown and red bird perched among red sumac berries in the snow.

Lady Cardinal in Winter

Property Line

The three drawings below are based on photos I took at Magdalen College, Oxford and belong to my “Passage of Time” series.

The Petty King

Nostalgia

Written in Stone

The three drawings below are based on photos I took of a blackbird nest in 2023 — from egg to nestling. In reality, there were four successful hatches!

For the drawings below, I am grateful to the photographer Harry Collins, whose photos I used as a reference with licence.