Scarlet Honeyeaters

This painting was done for the Maxwell and Williams “Birds of Australia Range” Series 2. When asked to paint some more works for the new series I was so pleased when Maxwell and Williams went for my suggestion of Scarlet Honeyeaters. At that stage I was delighting to their frequent but fleeting visits to my backyard and was keen to do a study of them. I lived on an acreage at Rosebank on the NSW North Coast for years and recently moved closer to town. I thought I was going to miss the birdlife of the country but was surprised to find that an even greater variety than previous was in my new backyard. Wrens abound, kookaburra, lorikeets, rosellas, corellas, buzzards, cockatoos and silvereye to name a few. This painting is comprised of several of these photos taken in my backyard in the branches of a grevillia.

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