White Helleborines and Chiffchaffs

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Beautiful painting Tina great composition

Posted by Petra Palmeri on Fri 01 Jul 22:46:24

What a composition! So much detail and so delicately painted. This painting must give you hours of pleasure - every time you look you find something new. Wonderful.

Posted by Brenda Wren on Sat 02 Jul 07:40:25

Wow so much detail has gone into this one, I'm impressed.

Posted by Debs Jones on Sat 02 Jul 10:39:49

Thank you so much. When work is appreciated with such nice comments by others, it is all worth it.

Posted by Tina Bone, AssocSBA on Sat 02 Jul 16:37:22

A lovely series of paintings. The details are so beautifully rendered.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sun 03 Jul 05:18:05

I saw the owl before I looked at this and it's just as beautifully painted as are the pictures you have posted today.

Posted by Joy Lee on Sun 03 Jul 12:42:14

Thank you very much to the last two reviewers. You have made my Sunday!! TB

Posted by Tina Bone, AssocSBA on Sun 03 Jul 12:48:27

Charming work - a very good gallery of paintings

Posted by jane vogas on Mon 04 Jul 19:28:44

Impressive, amazing amount of detail, huge amount of work must have gone into this!

Posted by Elizabeth Yuill Proctor on Wed 27 Mar 21:45:50

Thank you very much for your kind words Elizabeth, this is much appreciated. If you are interested, this painting has been selected by Wentworth Puzzles for their 2012 and 2013 catalogue. This is the direct link to the jigsaw puzzle: http://www.jigsaws.co.uk/products/602506.htm. The wooden puzzles are special, with 'whimsy' pieces shaped into the subject matter, with no proper straight edges - really weird (and hard) to do!

Posted by Tina Bone, AssocSBA on Wed 27 Mar 21:57:15

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31/03/2015

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An invitation to a friend's wild garden to draw White Helleborines en plein air could not be refused. I packed up drawing materials in May 2010 and sat amongst these beautiful flowers in the late evening sun, with chiffchaffs flitting about amongst the undergrowth, and trilling their unmistakable 'Chiff-Chaff, Chiff-Chaff' all around me. It was such an enchanting scene that, along with discarded pots tangled in the undergrowth, a composition was born. I was allowed to pick a couple of stems, to help me with the fine art drawing. I wanted to portray chiffchaffs in a natural environment. Although it looks as though the bottom bird is being encouraged to make a nest in the pot, this probably would not happen, as Chiffchaffs usually nest on the ground, making a sturdy ball nest of grasses and mosses. They are reasonably safe from predators because they are very shy, unobtrusive little birds (when they are not singing that is!). Many thanks to Valerie and John for the Helleborines. ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR. Completed March 2011. Framed Original 22" x 18".

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