Dear Website people..I SO want to, and keep trying to subscribe to the newletters, but the part of the page where I should be able to choose which I would like is "fogged over" ie, I'm unable to make a selection..
Sorry to use this avenue..the little poainting is precious....sad and beautiful
Julian - This little gem displays an absolutely brilliant ability to capture the absence of life - and to see and evoke the world in tiny details. Such pleasure for all of us.
Actually it may have been another robin. They are very territorial and will fight to the death. Ferocious little blighters!
So don't automatically blame the moggy! They're not always the bad guys.
I have an early 20th century pastel of dead pheasants in my kitchen - when my twin sister visits and looks at it, she always thinks it is morbid and gross. However, I know the genre in which it was done.
Your little bird is so beautiful - you paid good homage to him.
You must have been very moved by the sight of this little robin. ..painted with such delicatess
Could it be the cold ? everywhere in France it is -4 or-5 degrees cent.
Wow, so beautiful and so so sad, very thought provoking........who indeed? Moggie? another cock robin? Cold? Sparrow with his bow and arrow? Very beautifully done. What did Louis think?
Awwwww! So tender and touching and sad -- yet a gorgeous painting. The colors are exceptional! I took it to be an allegory of what is happening in Mali.
Give Louis, one of the most beautiful little boys in the world, a special hug.
I'm sure you were slobbering with GLEE at such a subject falling into your lap. There is no aspect not to love in this painting. Letting that rusty under-coat show through so nicely mirrors the robin's downy feathers and also seems to give the whole image a touch of reverence.
Great answer, Julian and a reminder of the way nature works. Your painting catches the colour of the robin and it will 'live' on in the image that you created.
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