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Fantails - native New Zealand birds, smaller than sparrow. They flit around our house a lot, chasing little insects. The background is a (poor) representation of some New Zealand bush, with a tree fern thrown in. Normally, there would be far more ferns, but I didn't like drawing them.
Commonest used Maori name is Piwakawaka, also dialectal versions hiwaiwaka, tirairaka and tiwakawaka... (sixteen altogether :D)
Rhipidura fulginosa

These birds move so frequently and so fast that they are very hard to photograph - the few I have are quite poor.
These were referenced from my own photographs and from this beautiful photograph by =carterr [link]

This is a birthday gift for my mother, I painted it over three evenings last week, and waited until now to upload it on the (very rare) chance that someone would see it and point it out to her.

Edit 10/10/09 - tada! New NZ bird picture, the Tui


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Edit 28/06/08: title changed from Morning Sunshine. Randomly named as I was putting it up...


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Mood: Love *Chicky-the-Dragon Jul 16, 2010  Student Writer
I love the colours on this and the bird is so pretty!

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*meihua Jun 17, 2010
Lovely work, especially on the bird in the foreground :)

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=elexti Jun 21, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I really love this one. Personally though, I think the red sky takes away from the birds a bit too much... more than half the image is red/orange/yellow. Cropping it to the tail of the second bird would help balance out the image, but that's just my opinion. I reckon this would have been really nice as a landscape :)

Having said that though, I adore it anyway XD

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~Flynn-the-cat Oct 9, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Had to think about this - but I do see what you mean.
Yes, it's an odd one, composition-wise - but I think it began that way, and it didn't quite work.
Looking at it now, I think taking the second bird OUT entirely would have actually been the better choice, less of the 'bar running up the side' effect... (which i only came to because I was trying to imagine how to 'fix' according to yor crit ^_^ Actually, that's an interesting composition... might try and paint soemthing like that!)

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~RedCrayonAristocrat Apr 16, 2009
Wow! The red sky is impressive! This almost looks as if it where done with prismacolors! Good job! =)
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~Flynn-the-cat Oct 9, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you!
Hah, no, all ArtRage ^_^ my prismas aren't that good!

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~QueenmiraIV Aug 24, 2008
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful! So pretty, the lighting is perfect :) :+favlove:

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~Flynn-the-cat Sep 21, 2008  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you ^_^ I really do appreciate the comment (...slow as I am to reply)

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~Flynn-the-cat Aug 24, 2008  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you! :heart:

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