White Rumped Vultures

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Very interesting and a very good painting

Really good painting David.

Glad to see the white rump. Well painted David.

Great work David. They are amazing and quite beautiful creatures, in a strange way, when you get close up to them in the wild.

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25/01/2024
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Basically watercolour although mounted on thin plywood and sealed. This is the latest in my Endangered Species family competition series. This highly environmentally important species was almost wiped out in the 1990s when 99.8% of them died mysteriously in India. The culprit the common nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory commonly known as Voltaren . The drug in vetenary use became much cheaper and much more widely used when it came off patent. Vultures eating animal corpses with NSAD die ofRenal failure.

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David Bleakley

I'm an 81 year old retired surgeon . Art has been my lifelong obsession away from work and now my main focus in life together with woodwork. I enjoy creating and making in any medium but have always gravitated to drawing and watercolour. I've also had limited training in etching and sculpture.

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