Red kite over Coombe Hill and the Vale of Aylesbury. by Paul (Dixie) Dean

One of the paintings I started recently and wasn’t concentrating very well so decided to do less detail than I tend to do . Picked it up yesterday and finished just now .

Very well done Paul.

An interesting landscape Paul. Great to see so many kites. I like how this one is gliding over the hills.

A beautiful far reaching vista, Paul - and love the wheeling birds!

Thank you Stephen, Carole and Anne I appreciate your comment.

Excellent watercolour Paul.

The diagonals of the hillside lead my eyes nicely to the kites. Well done.

Lovely and those birds work a treat

Thank you George , Nick and Heather.

Great job here Paul, and I like the tonal values…

Thank you Alan, I was worried about the amount of greens but it what the view looks like and it seems to have worked out.

Love it !!

Lovely painting Paul.

A lively landscape, Paul and nice composition too.

Really good Dixie, and good to see you posting. I agree with Nick, the slope of the landscape is attractive and the kites especially good. They are a regular sight here as well, but I’ve never seen forty! That must have been special.

Thank you Vale, Denise, Willie and Tessa for you kind comments. Unusual to see so many at once mostly see eight tens etc occasionally twenty or so , on the occasion that the large flock was about a local cafe had taken to putting out food mid afternoon, to attract the birds and of course customers. They have since stopped as it was pointed out that they were breeding to meet the food supply, once it’s stops they will die for lack of food feeding then is a false food supply, think the RSPB inspectors took up the issue with the cafe owners.

Sorry it should read Valerie not Vale .