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Published: 2010-07-11 02:22:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1506; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 45
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Acrylics, water colours and coloured pencils A3I was going through some photos i took and came across some goregeous blue winged kookaburra (not a laughing kookaburra) ones i had taken and couldnt resist myself. This is a female (identified by the rufous coloured tail, mails have blue tails) perched on a salmon gum tree. I was trying to get the foggy backgrounds that Robert Bateman gets with his paintings but utterly failed in pencils and just painted over the top with a pretty apricot. For some reason it reminds me of snow at the bottom, which beleive me is the last thing you will see where i live
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That is certainly the poor-cousin to the laughing one,though its a prettier bird 
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oh definatly i agree, most aussies i know think they are the laughing kind, dont see the different or even know there are 2 kinds of kookaburra, one of my mates didnt even recognise the call as a kookaburra because of it being so different.
Im glad you like it, i think its a prettier bird too with all that blue
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The Laughing one is rather ,well,brown 
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this is wonderful. You have great tallent with both photography and drawing if this is from you photo refrence
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yeah its from one of my photos ive taken, need to put them up sooner or later. Thanks for the kind words
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Such amazing Water Colours effect on this. You know it amaze's me how much you know of all these different birds species.
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Ive spent alot of time memorizing birds in my area and identifying them in bird books, i can recognise alot of calls too. Only recently i saw a bird while taking a walk and i didnt know what it was (but i had an idea it was a kind of pardalote because of the colours) and it turned out to be a striated pardalote: [link]
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wow, and it shows, I've always wanted to be able to figure which birds match which calls, but I've never really found anything I can get the information from, It surprises me how much people know about animals. You surprise me the most XD
Oh well now you know =3
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it helps to notice which birds make which songs, starting simple like magpies and kookaburras i guess would be easiest
I think my dad surprises me the most with his ability to identfy bird sounds since he has been blind since he was 14, he is able to tell the difference between species of wild ducks along with loads of birds such as brolgas and small birds including the willie wagtail. It amazes me how he can still reemmber the kind of bird and what they look like too.
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ahh yep, kookaburras calls aren't easy to forget, it's really the only one I know, It would take a lot of effort but it would be worth my wild.
Wow, he must have learned a lot about birds when he was younger than, maybe that's were you get your talent at getting all this amazing knowledge and surprising everyone x3
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Haha most people know the kookaburra laugh, the crow is an easy one too
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yeah kookaburra's laugh is famous XD it's funny how people use crows for like witch's are stuff, so I don't blame you for thinking that way.
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The apricot does look nice. Good choice on the fix-up.
I'm especially impressed by the shading over the wings of this kookaburra. Not only is each feather shaded, but the wing as a whole maintains a gradient. Very nice, very nice.
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thank you, was a big risk adding paint to the mix
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Photos never do justice to real life. It's shameful. It makes me wonder if we have programmed ourselves to see the world in a sharper, more saturated sense than the one in which it actually exists. Does that make any sense whatsoever?
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no not really. Do you mean the photos are sharper or the way we see things?
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This is really, really good. I love the simplicity X)
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thank you
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That's what's good about it 
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yeah i quite like this one, i just handed it in to the show so hopefully i get a place
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Beautiful work Jacki, the kookaburra is so cute! Not a bad background either
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Not a good background either
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