British Birds - Song Thrush and Blue Tit

 Another two birds for the British birds series...the song thrush singing its little heart out and the tiny, agile blue tit. I was really nervous about getting the song bird's patterned crest right, and then I was nervous about painting the whole of the blue tit because of its many markings and various colours - but now I think the blue tit is my favourite so far. (You can click the images for a bigger view)

Are there any British-native birds you would like to see? Let me know!

I wanted to see how the designs looked next to one another, so here are the four of them together so far:

British Birds - Greenfinch

This is actually the second version of this greenfinch...I wasn't happy with the first one so I started from scratch!

Eggs! (Chicken Eggs!)

I had a go at painting some eggs to accompany the chickens, I'm hoping to do some feathers as well. It was nice to paint food/produce again too. I was unsure about leaving them completely natural or adding in their date stamps...so I did a few of each.



I think I prefer the ones with the stamps 'cause they seem to have a bit more character, let me know which ones you like best! The way they are arranged give a different effect - so I played around with them:

Chickens! - The Hens

 I've been working on some chicken designs lately - here are the hens. I have a rooster in the works too but its taking a while to get right! I think I'll be adding a bit more to these before I will be happy to call them finished, but here they are for now!