Kestrel on Branch Original Acrylic

Framed Size 12" x 12", with non reflective glass.   It was time for me to expand my smaller framed size range, what better way than to include a Kestrel. SOLD at Birdfair 2019.

The painting is on Cold Press, extra heavy, off white Crescent art board and I aim to produce the finest detail in both the subject and its natural setting.  The shade of the Daler mountboard is carefully selected depending on the painting, as is the toning of the frame itself.    

Kestrels had recovered from the lethal and sublethal effects of organochlorine pesticides by the mid 1970s, the recovery probably driven by improving nesting success, but subsequently entered a decline which has been linked to the effects of agricultural intensification on farmland habitats and their populations of small mammals.  Read More.....RSPB Kestrel