Kingfisher in flight by Anjana Cawdell

Lovely Anjana, an explosion of colour

Stunning art - wondeful use of watercolour

Absolutely gorgeous. Love those colours and impression of water off the wings.

Great feet of movement

Love the colours and movement here Anjana.

Lovely painting love the salt application.

They are just about impossible to capture in their true beauty - seeing one in flight is like watching a handful of jewels in motion: but you've come as close as any I've seen for a long while, and it's a brave artist who will attempt this.

Heather, Ceri, Ellen, Carolyn, Carole, Carole and Robert thank you all for for your extremely generous comments. Carole S I was quite pleased with the salt result, I tapped the paper after applying the salt, which resulted in those dragged appearances. Robert that is high praise indeed, thank you so much, love your description of a kingfisher in flight! It was a gorgeous photo reference that inspired me.

A jewell of a painting Anjana.

Lovely use of textures and hard and soft edges. Super work, Anjana!

Stunning painting

Thank you so much Fiona, Seok and Romila for your kind words :-)