vendredi 24 juin 2011

Parrots , peacocks and other birds

Birds are quite frequently used to ornate decorative paintings and bring some life and animation in otherwise too quiet compositions...
I remembered I had painted a few parrots but when I started researching in the pictures of my murals and paintings I noticed that there was a nice variety of winged creatures...here they are.



...blue parrots in a boy's room in Provence...



...fantasy birds in Louis XV decorative panels...


...work in progress, class panel...


...cockatoo in a mural for York Wallcoverings...



...peacocks and magpie in murals for a castle of the Loire valley...


...fantasy bird in a ceiling study...


...rooster in a french countryside scenery...


...swallows in a baroque ceiling...


... seagull in seascape ...


...my daughter and the goldfinch , a memory of Carel Fabritius...



...study of parrots from a XVIIth century model.

2 commentaires:

  1. I love them all! The swallows are my favorite though. Your daughter is very sweet. She must love to watch you paint. Thanks for this wonderful post!

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  2. Thank you Theresa ...I did not really remember I had painted so many birds in murals . There are actually some more that I did not pick up for this post , mostly because I do not have good enough pictures.
    I also like the swallows , they give such a nice fell of spacial depth ...it is nice litlle trick if your clouds do not do the job ;-)

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