Hawks' Wing Feather.

original watercolour with Pen & ink. 4 X 15"   I have a beautiful bouquet of feathers, found by me, or gifted to me by friends who know how much I love them.  These feathers take turns modelling for me, and this is just one of many feather portraits I've done.  I try and do them life-size and reproduce them as accurately as I can.  Since I use only red, yellow and blue, finest quality watercolours, it's challenging to get the subtleties of tan, brown, buff, orange and black that feathers like this display.