Galah Sequence - oil on board - 20cm x 20cm by Gerhard Ritter

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Thank you. I'm supposed to be starting to use oils shortly on my course and this is very useful.

Posted by Diana Hudson on Wed 09 Jun 01:29:29

Diana - good luck with your painting. You may wish to check out my blog http://ritterart.blogspot.com/ for more pics and sequences on some of the older posts.

Posted by Gerhard Ritter on Wed 09 Jun 04:10:36

Very interesting progression - mine look a lot muckier than this before reaching completion! I see you go for a really strong drawing at the start, and I suspect that's a particularly good idea.

Posted by Robert Jones, Napa on Wed 09 Jun 20:29:35

Agree with above comments, lovely colour use as well, interesting to see your notes as well, that you live in a part of the world where these birds are seen as a plague, here the colours of this bird would be seen as stunning

Posted by Ros Patterson on Mon 18 Feb 09:06:47

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31/03/2015

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Just to be a little different - I thought you might be interested in seeing some of the stages a small work like this goes through. These birds sometimes reach plague numbers in some rural areas here and are the bane of farmers - they dig up freshly sown seed and chew seedlings as they sprout.