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The Tui - an endemic New Zealand honeyeater bird, with an absolutely incredible song.

Those are Japanese Cherry blossoms - not natives at all! :D

Entry for *artofalinea One Contest
Why?
Obvious: it's one bird
Less obvious: Unique to one country.
Only obvious to people who had to sit and count bird interactions on Tiritiri Matangi sanctuary that one time: the tui are one of the most dominant and aggressive bird species - apart from the NZ falcon and the Australasian Harrier obviously! While there are a few bigger birds (e.g. the kereru/wood pigeon), the tui is the one that takes over a nice tree and sits at the top of the hierarchy, in most of the bush.

...which meant that I spent several hours sitting watching trees with just one tui, and never anything else.

ONE TUI! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH. Yeah, we all got out of writing that report on bird interaction >.>


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Time:
Probably around six hours actually painting

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ArtRage 2.5 ....of course

Painted for:
  • My Tui page, because I needed a good image, with no copyright angst.
    My parents, because they wanted to see one from me, and the last nice native bird picture... well, the only other one, was the fantail one back in June 2008


    My sister, because she has a poem she wants illustrated... which I don't yet have ;P

    Me, because I wanted to.
    My watchers, because I keep fobbing off distracted 'throw colour at the screen because OMG I have a thesis project' pictures on them.



    • And critique is all good. Got bored doing the flowers though, so won't appreciate comments along the lines of 'if only you'd done the flowers properly...' ;P But anything else... background/composition/colour choices etc, all wanted!


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    ~vrm1979 Mar 21, 2012
    wonderful :)
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    *el-e Jul 23, 2010
    amazing work:]
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    ~Libfly Feb 16, 2010
    beautiful!

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    ~DeadCountess Jan 5, 2010  Professional Photographer
    Beautiful :rose:

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    *meihua Dec 27, 2009
    Beautiful work!

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    ~Flynn-the-cat Dec 27, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
    Aw, thanks :heart:

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    *Mogrianne Dec 27, 2009   Photographer
    Nice. I just got back from NZ and was watching Tui a lot. :) This is very good representation of one.
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    ~Flynn-the-cat Dec 27, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
    Oh that's nice!

    And thank you!

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    *Mogrianne Dec 27, 2009   Photographer
    my pleasure :)
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    ~Charmed-Ravenclaw Oct 11, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
    The cherry blossoms here look absolutely gorgeous! I love the detail and how they stand out. However, I think the bird could do with some work because it doesn't stand out from the black background so much, and it's a bit difficult to see. Unless you wanted it that way.

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