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LyrebirdJacki — Once Upon a Forest Kingfisher
Published: 2009-08-22 10:21:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1161; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 56
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I Went to the art shop today since i had used up all my paper and i ended up getting some water colour paints (yes, actually paints not pencils lol) and i found out they are so much better than the pencils.Erheerrrm...
This is a forest kingfisher, offenly mistaken for the little kingfisher and the sacred kingfisher since they are pretty similar in appearence. i chose to do one since the blue was pretty in the photo i used so yeah, looks nice anyways for an amateur water colour painter
along with the art spree i ordered a camera that my cousin (she does professional photographty) considered i buy if i want good resolution photos for drawing, there goes all my job money i had saved up lol
Close up: [link]
i got some MDF today too so im gunna try out some oils later, any ideas on what to paint? no fantasy please....
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my favorite bird 
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yes they are goregeous, such lovely little treasures they are
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thanks, love the frogs by the way
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ha, coincidences! just learned yesterday (or the day before) from someone's gallery that there are actually many sorts of kingfishers
love the painting! his eyes makes him alive
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which one did u only know of? i have seen probably about 4 different kinda of kingfishers, this is one of the more rarer ones i dont see often, i usually see greenish ones with black bands around their faces.
thanks, its not really what i'd call good but i cant say i dislike it, they eye is nice i agree
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the blue-and-orange one, common kingfisher (alcedo atthis)
i'd never though before that something like that one was a kingfisher too, or another one . or this one
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wow apart from that common kingfisher i'd never seen any of those kingfishers, they look very exotic. The common kingfisher i presume is a european bird? i notice alot of european artists' draw them.
i get these kingfishers where i live:
little kingfisher: [link]
Forest kingfisher: [link]
red backed kingfisher: [link]
sacred kingfisher: (the ones i see often) [link]
that guy's gallery is awesome, some nice pictures there
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they look exotic to me too. as do yours
yeah, and what i like about his gallery as well is that he posts descriptions and not just pics
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yeah, its cool to have a bit of information about the animal/bird to give an idea of what it is
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Watercolours always fail me... I mean I fail them. I love them, Im just rubbish with them! This kingfisher has come out beautifully, the background is gorgeous. Hope youre very very pleased with it ^_^
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im sort of pleased with it, best i can do it so far so im happy. well i dont blame u, they are so hard to use
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Looks great and natural! Love your watercolours skills <3
Have you ever drawn a cardinal? They're beautiful birds!
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no i havent, they are those red birds right? i wanted to draw one in the snow but im too lazy, i might tho along with a blue jay, they are pretty too
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Yeah, they are bright and red XD
Blue jay is cool too! Anyway I'll wait for more art from you! ^^
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im currently working on a goshawk which is nearly finished, might be up tommorow but ill be gone for 2 days camping so maybe no drawings till wednesday. if u like u can tell me of a local bird u see often where u live and ill see if i can draw it when i have the time
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I see pigeons, thousands of them XD
But honestly, I really like our local lapwings. [link] ^^
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we have lapwings in australia tho they look very differnt from those, what's the name for them? since there are a few kinds of lapwings it might be a hassle to find good refs
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It's a Nothern Lapwing I believe. Also people call them Green Plover or Peewit.
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thanks, ill see what i can do
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Ooh! Watercolors! Scary! The background is perfect, nice and simple, but very pretty.
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id love to do airbrush backgrounds tho, did them in year 8, its pretty easy and gives it an awesome effect like in photograpths but i fear my wallet will not allow such ideas
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I've never played with airbrushing at all. Does it take fancy equipment?
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yeah unfortuently, u have a little gun spray which u attach a bottle filled with normal paint. the gun is attached to an air pressure hose and u pull the trigger on the gun and it sprays.
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That sounds like tons of fun! Except the whole lugging an air compressor around bit... that could get miserable.
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Gosh is there any medium you can't be good in? 
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u wet the paper and drip the paint on it and it flowers or "bleeds" like that, u can mix other colours like i did and they still bleed, as long as the paper is wet u can do it.
nah it still isnt that good, i've still got a bit to do until i conqouer watercolour
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Nice
i think you should paint a fat happy pigeon.
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lol i dont know why but i just have a picture of a pigeon hitting the window now. i got a unfinished pigeon drawing somewhere, ill put it up if i find it
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great!
hah sounds good. i love pigeons. they are everywhere at school. they are all heaps fat from scraps of food.
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we have loads of pigeons that visit my yard for the chooks' food, i swear u can just pick them up cos they are so fat, take a bit longer to take off the ground too lol.
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ahh. i love pigeons.
i dont like it when they are called vermin at school. i still leave them my crusts hehe. they are way to cutee.
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they arnt a problem here as far as i know, tho leaving baits out for them would be bad (as i have heard they do to pigeons when they become pests) since other birds can easily consume the bait and die from it, and not just birds either. i like to feed the ibises, seagulls, plovers, mudlarks and pigeons when i go for my bike rides after school, even tho the seagulls and plovers are pretty much hated by everyone, gets some trust out of them so when they take over the world they may spare me for a crust
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Oh wow, another great bird drawing! 
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why thanks, the tree was fun
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all i could ever paint were bottles, how very sad...
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glass bottles? like making them transparent? i cant do that to save my life
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Well they didn't really look transparent as such, but they sure looked better than anything else I tried!
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do u have any photos of those paintings in your gallery?
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no, it was quite a while ago, i either lost them or threw them out. I should have kept them now I come to think of it...
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u should always keep your drawings, tho i cant talk cos i do throw out many of mine...
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I keep them all now, but those older ones were really quite awful
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