Goldfinch on sunflower by Carole Swingler

Carole, this is beautiful! one of my favorite birds and, thankful, one that we seem to have in profusion now.

Works really well. Really well drawn Carole.

Absolutely gorgeous Carole!

Beautiful little bird, looks just so realistic.

I really like the contrast of the plain graphite and the colour.

That's lovely

A lovely piece of Mother nature caught in a beautiful painting well done Carole

A truly inspired piece Carole superb

Nice surprise...

The sunflower and finch completely complement one another Carole - so beautiful

Thank you all, took advice to put a bit of colour on, this is a drawing a did a little while ago. I think it looks better with the splash of colour so thank you for the idea.

A lovely addition to the pencil Carole, that really does work.

Another masterpiece Carole, I admire your patience, these drawings must take hours and hours of intense concentration. Beautiful!!

Thank you Alan and Satu. Yes a bit of arm ache :)

Wonderful drawing, Carole. I like the contrast between the gray flower and the coloured bird.

Really like the combination of monochrome and colour Carole so effective. As ever your work on botanicals is so good even down to the stem hairs on the sunflower, another great piece ,

This is gorgeous Carole, love the combination of colour and pencil. Goldfinches are regular visitors to our bird feeder.

Delightful ! I like your decision to colour only the Goldfinch.

This is absolutely lovely, Carole! Superb use of the three mediums and so well drawn.

Thank you very much Cesare, Malcolm, Jenny, Avril and Ruth.

Lovely and true to life Carole. Ours have all disappeared for the summer.

Thanks Frank, we still have a family :)

What a gorgeous picture Carole. I like colour popping in my photography and think that it works really well here.

Simply wonderful, what more can be said.

Thats beautiful Carole. So delicate.

Thanks so much Carolyn, David and Syd.

Beautiful pencil workombined with a very expressive bird Carole

Beautiful! Carole this is wonderful!

Really appreciate your comments Carole and Margaret.

Superb. Exquisite. Magnificent.

Too kind Gudrun! :)

That is just soooo good Carole, the dying sunflower in pencil contrasts so well with the colourful plumage of the goldfinch.

Thank you very much Val x

Beautiful drawing, very effective use of colour.

I really like the way you have made the little bird the focus of the painting and still have provided a context. A lovely picture.

I love the contrast of colour against the pencil drawing. Such a lot of detail. Its beautiful.

You have caught the balancing of the goldfinch very well. Thanks for the comment on my work.