puriri piwakawkaka

3 canvases 205mm x 205mm x 35mm each
Archival quality acrylics and gesso on canvas


Here two little piwakawaka (fantails)chatter to each other. I am trying to look to other ways to add a life-like vitality to the birds / manu that I paint, showing movement or singing, chirping is a way that I can do that. The branches of the puriri tree are more cropped into the foliage than what I normally depict. This opens up the composition and allows the piwakawaka to be the main focus. It increases the naturalism of the scene.