Lots of insects buzzing around already and it's not even full yet 😊

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#30dayswild day 30 save the best till last! Build (or actually rebuild) a wildlife pond.

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So here they are all 30 which one did you like best?

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Last day Day 30 of my challenge it's been fun! So I finish as I started with a barn owl... the painting will be for sale with 50% to Mousehole Wildbird Hospital if you would like first choice you can join my studio insights (link in profile) thank you for following and encouraging me!

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So far in my 30 day challenge this has been the most popular painting ... 😊

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Day 29 of my 30 day challenge I do love drawing rooks this one looks a little suspicious 😊

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#30dayswild Day 29 Here is one of my gorgious plump Wood Pigeons as featured in yesterdays painting, just hanging around...and being chilled...

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9 of my challenge paintings, all 30 will be for sale soon, 50% of the proceeds will go to Mousehole wildbird hospital, if you would like to get first choice please sign up to my studio insights https://ift.tt/2RDEFgj.

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Day 28 a beautiful fat wood pigeon I love the totally laidback character of these birds, a pair nest locally, eventually, they spend most of their time just enjoying looking around and taking it all in... at the same time so powerful and fast in the air...

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My little lambs are all big now... so its time to wean them now.

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#30dayswild our pheasant is back after a break he is getting a little more confident and coming into the yard from the field now

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#30dayswild day 27 this beautiful young magpie has been braving the huge gusts of wind to check out under the bird feeder, you cant see it from the photos but its tail feathers are electric blues and greens quiet spectacular ...

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Day 27 another Buzzard today the wind is a bit much for them today I think... it has taken a branch off one of our trees and there are very few birds braving the gusts just now #30daychallenge

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Another selection of my challenge paintings they will be live in my shop next week. See link in profile to sign up to my studio insights and be the first to see them..

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#30dayswild Dsy 26 umbellifers and insects , this evening the garden is full of insects, they seem to love the wild hog weed which is having a very good year this year...

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A little collection of 9 of the painting I have made so far, in case you missed it, all of the paintings from my 30 day challenge will be for sale at the end of the month, 50% of the proceedes will go to Mousehole wild bird hospitsl, if you would like to be one of the first to see them please sign up to my studio insights (link in profile) https://ift.tt/2RDEFgj

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Because i have just noticed in the @btobirds feed its swift awareness week they would like to know of your swift sightings. So I thought I would repost my #30daychallenge painting from day 12

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Day 26 yesterday a sparrow hawk passed me as I walked across the field pursued by a small group of sparrows... I hoped it hadn't taken a chick but also know it may have chicks of it's own to feed...either way it was a beautiful sight

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Pottery meets printmaking 😊

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Wandering over to see the horses I noticed lots of meadow brown butterflies again...but then a pair of tortoiseshells ❤ so this is my #30dayswild experirnce for today.

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#30dayswild I didn't think I would paint gulls but there have been a lot around locally due to silage cutting and muck spreading, normally I only see them at dawn and dusk flying through the valley....so here is a herring gull ...

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All of the paintings I have been making for my 30 day challenge a painting a day for 30 days will be for sale at the end of the month, I hope to raise some money for the Mousehole bird hospital so 50% of the proceedes will go to them, if you would like to be one of the first to see them you can sign up to my studio insights (link in profile) see you there!

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#30dayswild Day 24 todays painting is a Buzzard, I usually see then far above at this angle we sometimes get 8 or more circling together, I always think it's like a holding pattern over an airport

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As always this will be a great show and I am delighted to be part of it. #Repost @cornwall_crafts • • • • • • The Private View for our glorious Summer Exhibition 2019 at Trelowarren is on Saturday 29th June. All welcome . . . @trelowarren #trelowarrengallery #Trelowarren #cornwallcrafts #cornwallcraftsassociation #cca #summerexhibition #summer #privateview #craft #art #ceramics #pottery #porcelain #glass #jewellery #furniture #mixedmedia #metalwork #wood #millenary #hats #lighting #furniture #textile #exhibition

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New blog post Process, Practice, Ideas ....if you would like to read it there is a link in my profile to follow...

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Final week of the @thewildlifetrusts #30dayswild and I am hoping for slightly better weather so I can get out more ☀️

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#30dayswild day 23 one of my lovely quirky Jackdaws, always talkative and sociable and so busy doing their Jackdaw thing, they seem present where ever I am.❤

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#30dayswild Day 23 Make a bird table.... a couple of bits of log stacked up...the magpies, jackdaws, crows and sparrows particulalry love this... this was a lucky shot.

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Three Ravens...linocut and monoprint, thinking about titles for this one...small world? They are precariously balanced, struggling to maintain their position on each others shoulders and the tiny ball... 🌍

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#30dayswild Day 22 a lovely day hear in Cornwall, I followed this Red Admiral for a while until it settled on a nettle...they often lay their eggs next to a stinging nettle hair for protection. A good reason to let them grow....

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Beautiful and majestic Ravens today, I am so lucky to have a pair locally, they were out and about today, I am always quite surprised at just how large they are when I see them next to another bird today it was a herring gull in flight they are a good 30% larger ...

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They always look so much more finished with a mount around them

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I will be selecting owls for the @cornwall_crafts exhibition at trelowarren today...

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#30dayswild day 21 a speckled wood butterfly ... ☀️

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This evening I sat on the garden in the glorious solstice sun reading a poem, when I heard a shrill call over head to see a kestrel flying by, the poem was Raptor by RS Thomas who was an Anglican priest in north Wales. I imagine he has a different perspective than I when he talks of God, but he refers to bird watching as akin to prayer...my God is probably nature and my prayer is a kind of meditative presence, but here it is 'Raptor' You have made God small, setting him astride a pipette or a retort studying the bubbles, absorbed in an experiment that will come to nothing. I think of him rather as an enormous owl abroad in the shadows, brushing me sometimes with his wing so the blood in my veins freezes, able to find his way from one soul to another because he can see in the dark. I have heard him crooning to himself, so that almost I could believe in angels, those feathered overtones in love’s rafters, I have heard him scream, too, fastening his talons in his great adversary, or in some lesser denizen, maybe, like you or me.

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Can anyone recommend some poetry about British birds especially owls but anything will be gratefully read!

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Happy summer solstice...

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#30dayswild day 20 vetch found in the rather too long grass in my garden 😊

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#30dayswild day 20 a badger today in my #30daychallenge a paint a day for 30 days.... I am not sure why I find foxes a badgers so challenging but I do...

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#30dayswild Day 19 after all the rain a meadow brown butterfly tonight 😊

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I may need to revert to drawing in ink (like this one) for my birds on busy backgrounds in order to give them some presence... and so that they are able to compete and balance the composition... not that I mind I love working with ink...

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#30dayswild day 18 a baby goldfinch ❤

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#30dayswild day 18 barn owls again but I just really enjoy painting them 😁. . . #30daychallenge a painting a day for 30 days ...

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Trying to intuitively layer these backgrounds.... still way too busy to paint birds into ...even though this is how the world feels sometimes to me anyway...

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Day 17 back to Barn Owls again...

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#30dayswild more @cornwallcollege wildlife today there are always jackdaws ❤

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This is the face of a sheep having a really good scratch! ❤

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#30dayswild This is the same fox as in the last drawing ... slightly darker and I think a mature adult.... . . . . #wildlifecamera #foxesofinstagram #foxes #wildlife #lovenature #farmland #fox #humananimalrelationship #wildlife #wildlifepainting #contemporaryart #30dayswild2019 #30dayswildchallenge #getoutdoors #enjoynature #enjoynaturesbeauty #enjoyingnature #naturelover #contmeporarypainting #illustration #painting #gallerywall #picturegallery #dreamhome #farmhouseliving #countryliving

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Day 16 #30dayswild I've decided to stay with foxes today this one seems a little less bold.... . . .#foxesofinstagram #foxes #wildlife #lovenature #farmland #fox #humananimalrelationship #wildlife #wildlifepainting #contemporaryart #30dayswild2019 #30dayswildchallenge #getoutdoors #enjoynature #enjoynaturesbeauty #enjoyingnature #naturelover #contmeporarypainting #illustration #painting #gallerywall #picturegallery #dreamhome #farmhouseliving #countryliving

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Day 15 #30daychallenge half way through the drawing a day... and my first mammal sketch one of the gorgeous inquisitive young foxes from my remote camera

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