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I've always loved birds of prey, big cats and wolves and was encouraged by my art group to have a go at creating an artwork involving one of those animals. Having done quite a few landscapes in the art group, this was a chance to do something different and I loved the pose and the intensity of the stare from this peregrine.
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This is a pastel painting of a peregrine falcon at rest on a tree stump but keeping a watchful eye out for its next meal. It was created using Faber Castell pastel pencils on Fabriano Ingres pastel paper. These were the materials I had started with while learning pastel art and I continued to use them for a while as I was developing.
This painting was completed as a sort of 'homework' for an art group that I attended for a while, until the art tutor retired. It also made it into the selection for our end-of-year art exhibition. I decided to give the painting a blurred background, akin to a short-focus photograph, so that I could concentrate on the close-up detail of the bird and the tree stump.
It was intended as the first of a series of paintings under the banner 'Bird on a Perch' and since I love birds of prey, I decided to start with one and chose this peregrine falcon. The series has not developed as I had hoped, chiefly because I seem to have been doing a lot of landscapes instead, but it is still in mind and will feature various species of birds on a variety of perches
The painting measures 18 x 28 cm (or 31 x 41 cm in its cream coloured mount).
Designed by Mike Shayler
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