Wildlife Artist and Photographer

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Tag : small bird
Black Beauty
A white-faced heron is painted in great detail, seen from the side standing on a rock, one leg slightly raised in an elegant pose. This small heron species is mostly a blue-grey colour, with a white face and long grey bill, contrasted by a light yellow eye and long yellow legs. This bird is focused and ready to strike the water for his next meal of fish. The background is a loose watercolour splash of blue, suggesting a wetland. Artwork by Nadya Neklioudova.
Blue Dream
A watercolour painting of a Barn Owl, sitting with folded wings and looking back over its shoulder. Behind the owl is a circle, suggesting the field of view of a telescope, and a watercolour version of the Orion Nebula in pinks, mauves and purples. Outside the circle and behind the Owl is a grey textured background wash.
Orion Owl
A Rainbow Bee-eater splashes into the water and emerges to fly upwards. The bird’s wings are painted loosely as to convey their flapping motion. Underneath and all around the bird are splashes of water droplets, chaos against an otherwise calm green backdrop of a forest pond.
Splash!
This gentle Magpie is painted in watercolours on fine art paper, with salt textures creating the feathers on the body, and shades of blue in the plumage reflecting the blue of the surrounding floral pattern. Faint blue grevilleas appear in the background, for extra interest - an iconic Australian flower. Artwork by Nadya Neklioudova.
Magpie Magic
A brightly-coloured yellow and black Regent Bowerbird looks upwards towards the right, with a speckled grey background wash behind him.
Bright Hopes
The prickly branches of a native lime bush poke throughout this painting – but this is the native habitat where the life cycle of the Dainty Swallowtail Butterfly takes place. Eggs, a caterpillar, two camouflaged chrysalis, a butterfly that has just emerged and is hanging to dry its wings, and at the top of the painting, a butterfly that has just taken off for its first flight.
Butterfly Life Cycle
A woman's face is calm with an ageless beauty, her pale hair dishevelled and slightly wild. An Eastern Yellow Robin has woven a nest in her hair. Did the bird use her hair to line her nest? Or does the woman carry the colourful yellow bird only in her imagination, in her mind, as a vision of Nature?
Nature Nests Within Us
Upon a bright background watercolour wash of magenta at the top graduating to pale yellow at the bottom, stands a confident Crested Pigeon, facing the viewer directly. He stands with his head bowed, tail fanned out and high in the air, and wings opened with feathers aimed up in beautiful display, showing the iridescent magenta and green feathers of the wings.
Looking For Love
A watercolour Zebra runs through the dry African landscape, against a background of gathering storm-clouds, with a light curtain of rain in the distance. A small lizard in the foreground looks on, startled by the hoofbeats.
Stormbringer
A Rufous Fantail mother bird sits in a small cup-shaped nest, surrounded by macadamia tree leaves.
A Tiny Home
A drawing of a cute sleeping Boobook Owl, sitting in a tree hollow, clearly asleep with eyes closed. The artwork has a limited colour palette of mainly brown for the tree and owl's feathers, with blues and greys for shading. The texture of the tree is made up of ink pen scribbles.
Snooze
A cute little 5x7-inch painting of a brightly coloured Variegated Fairy-wren on canvas, on a bright green background. This artwork comes fitted inside a lovely blue frame, matching the colours of the little wren.
Mini painting – Wren 1
A sweet little 5x7-inch acrylic painting of a bright-red male Scarlet Honeyeater.
Mini painting – Scarlet Honeyeater
A young Cassowary stares right at you in this bright, whimsical watercolour painting.
Looking Deadly
Two Yellow Robins perch on the side of a twisting rainforest tree, hunting for insects amongst the mosses and small ferns that grow on the tree. Behind the trees is a warm background glow of a rainforest bathed in sunrise.
Dawn Singers
A soft watercolour portrait of a Dingo against a green leafy background, the animal is facing left and looking slightly upwards.
Dingo Portrait
A Bluetongue Lizard emerges from ferny undergrowth, showing his bright blue tongue in this watercolour sketch.
Bluetongue Lizard
A small watercolour painting of red currant berries, still hanging on the bush, with a view of bright sunlight filtering through its leaves.
A Sweet Memory
Redhead
Watercolour painting in soft pinks and greys of a Galah preening his soft fluffed up feathers, creating an artistic composition reminiscent of a spiral.
La Vie En Rose
Pretty in Pink
King of the Fairies
Seeds of Happiness
A Glossy Black Cockatoo with wings stretched upwards flies in the air, with a watercolour sunrise background.
Flight of Hope
Blue Wren on Emerald Green
A detailed black and white drawing, done in pen & ink, of a Burrowing Owl with its head tilted sideways. Its yellow eyes are a pop of colour, looking at you quizzically. Near the owl’s feet is a small desert landscape with succulents and small stones, where a Scarab Beetle is hoping the Owl won’t see it.
A Matter of Perspective
A sweet and simple watercolour illustration of a Blue-Banded Bee visiting a native Scrambling Lily flower in the garden.
Blue-Banded Bee
A square watercolour with a soft purplish-blue background wash, to set off the white and light-yellow tones of a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo in profile. The Cockatoo is looking to the left, with a cheeky grin.
Cheeky Cockatoo
A tall canvas with a golden acrylic background, displaying a black cockatoo’s striking tail feather as if in a collection. The feather is striped with black, red and yellow.
Black Cockatoo Feather
In the centre of this watercolour artwork is an allegory of Mother Nature, in very soft grey tones. She is calm and serene, with her eyes closed. Her hair becomes a spray of native Wattle, Callistemon and Flowering Gum, and a colourful Rainbow Lorikeet is perched on Her shoulder.
Connection with Nature
A mystical watercolour painting of a Barn Owl feather, softly patterned, set against a light wash of grey, with diagonal gold splatter and patterns suggesting stars.
Barn Owl Feather
A pen and ink drawing of a Koala resting in a Eucalyptus tree, framed by leaves.
Koala drawing
Just Hanging Around
A male Red-backed Fairy-wren is like a tiny dancer on a sun-lit stage - the stage being a fence post. Sunset light creates warmth and cool shadows around intricately woven vines, that are winding around the fence post.
Sunset Dancer
Powerful Owl Feather study
Corella Connection
A watercolour painting of a Yellow Robin, perched on a diagonal tree branch, with a green and yellow background wash.
Yellow Robin
Lean on Me
Double Rainbow
A detailed portrait of the head of a Wedge-Tailed Eagle, looking left. The Eagle’s beak is curved and sharp, the detailed plumage is brown.
Wedge-Tailed Eagle
Echidna Encounter
Emu
Entwined
Etosha Elephant
Frogmouth Surprise
Giraffe
Happy Hippo
Song of the Honeyeater
In Her Hands
Kangaroo Cuddle
This minimal illustration features the native Australian kingfisher perched calmly on the grey branch. The branch twists and wanders through the artwork. There is a soft blue watercolour wash background behind the bird and branch, and lots of white paper space to breathe.
Sacred Kingfisher
Kookaburra Chat
Kookaburra drawing
Mandarin Duck
Meerkat Family
Mini painting – Wren 2
Noctuid Moth
Oryx
Springbok
Pangolin Portrait
Pretty Roo Portrait
Sketch of a Red-Backed Wren
Red-Browed Finch
An Autumn Moment
Red Elephant
Rufous Fantail
Samovar with Lemons
Bast
Sekhmet
Horus
Variegated Fairy Wren pair
Water Dragon
Weedy Sea Dragon
Wren and Waratah
Wrensday
Wren Singing in the Rain
This delightful and minimal watercolour features just the two little birds on their branch, the bright male and demure brown female, looking in the same direction towards the right-hand side. There is a soft classic blue watercolour wash background behind them, and a few blue splashes to add interest.
Love Means Looking in the Same Direction Together
This adorable Variegated Fairy-Wren seems to pop with colour and pattern from the cool blue background.This illustration features fun, surprising geometric patterns on the feathers of the wren and the branch he is perching on. The textured abstract background suggests a forest thicket of branches.
Textured Wren
Zebra Love