I have spent the whole day painting, apart from mucking out the ponies this morning. Instead of finishing the paintings I started yesterday, I did my usual, and started something new. Inspired by the draw a bird day, that I have seen others participate in. I picked a pheasant, mainly because I don’t get too many birds in my garden, not a bad thing, as having five cats, their life could be compromised! We do see lots of birds in the new forest, and the fields often have visiting pheasants, I have photographed many over the years. This is ‘startled’ I will see if I can work out how to post this to the draw a bird day link??? If anyone is interested, it began with Laura at create art everyday, it is now hosted by Kerfe and Nina at Methodtwomadness, draw a bird day
‘Startled’ pheasant watercolour, with some acrylic! Draw a bird day
RebeccaEvans Create 
Love the wing action. N.
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Thank you Nina, I find wings rather frustrating, because of this I try to tackle my issues head on and paint birds with open wings, only one way to get better, keep trying!
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Wow, what a tremendous bird painting! Love it, Rebecca! This is really gorgeous work!
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Thank you Laura, decided I should get on board with draw- a- bird day, I guess this one could go in for Feb? Is it the 8 th?
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It is the 8th. Sure, when Kerfe and Nina do their post on the 8th just post a link to this underneath it.
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Wow! Awesome pheasant! And lucky you getting to paint all day!!!! 🙂
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Thank you jodi, and yes it was fantastic to stay in and paint all day, it is relaxing when you know all the other jobs in the house, and the horses are done.
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I love the fluttering wings. The texture and detail are awesome.
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Thank you Sharon, fluttering wings are a problem for me, so tackling them is my answer.
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You can put the link in on Feb 8; in any case I will bookmark this for inclusion in the summary. (K)
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Oh that would be brilliant thank you, I will try and remember to post, as I would like to get into the habit of doing this every month, I need an alarm for the 8 th of every month ( or a tweet) !
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We all do!
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Incredible painting, Rebecca – really love how you’ve captured such movement in the wings!
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Thank you Jacob
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…. your pallet choices set this off so nicely–such a handsome, energetic result
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Thank you lance, they are handsome birds, albeit a bit thick!
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This was greeat to read
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Thank you Wendy 😀
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