Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebs
Photorealism Gouache Bird Painting
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Gouache Painting on Watercolour Board 1983
16 x 12 ins
private collection
A Photorealism Bird Painting of a male Chaffinch.
The reference photo for this artwork was taken when I
was about 16 years old on a family holiday in Devon.
The Chaffinches were very tame and used to perch on
car bonnets waiting for food scraps to be thrown to them.
Although the Chaffinch is one of the more brightly coloured
of British Birds it is well camouflaged against the complexity
of the grass which takes up half of the Painting.
Photorealism Bird Painting Technique:
The Chaffinch Picture was painted to a finished state in
very small sections with very little over-painting, a Painting
Method I rarely use these days.
No white paint was used in the Chaffinch Painting, all the
lighter areas are where the Watercolour Board is allowed to
show through.
A Signed Greetings Card of this Painting is available click here
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