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 A pastel of a Eastern Yellow Robin.  Slightly odd angle for photograph, however it is already framed and was hard to take the shot with the glass and not get a reflection.  Painting taken from photographic image kindly supplied by Lesley Kiker from Victoia.  Lesley does wonderful bird photos.  This was my first ever bird pastel, done a few months back. I like my birds to be a painting not done like a photographic copy so soft pastels are perfect  for painterly effects.

 Pastel of this beautiful small bird that lives in the Australian bush.  From a photograph with the kind permission of Darryl Kirby.  These are the sweetest birds and when I lived in the mountains we had a family who lived in our garden, a small brood of females with one male.  The females are often referred to as Jenny Wrens.  I always love to paint them and imagine myself back in my old garden while I do.  image unframed is 10 x 10 inches.  All my works are available for sale. 

  A small male Blue Wren in pastels I gifted to my stepson's partner, Katie.  10 x 10 inches.  Image kindly supplied by Lesley Kiker from Victoria.  Lesley is a wonderful bird photographer and I am honoured she let me use her image to create this painting from it , her photos are superb. 

 I belong to a bird photo site on facebook and some time back asked if people would give me permission to paint from their photos.  I had lots of lovely photos offered to me and I am most grateful for that.  With covid around my going out and gathering material is severely limited as I have kidney disease.  I love pastelling and having developed a severe reaction to paint am going to be working in birds for some time to come.  This is a small Kingfisher I created in pastels from a photo by Manda Lee with thanks to her for her kindly allowing me to use her image for my painting.  10 x 10 inches.