Asian Fairy Bluebird
by Barry Kent MacKay
Original - Sold
Price
$700
Dimensions
9.000 x 12.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
Asian Fairy Bluebird
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Oil On Compressed Hardboard
Description
The Asian Fairy Bluebird, Irena puella, is found through much of southern Asia, including Indonesia and the islands of Borneo, Sumatra and the Andamans. I saw it in the wild in Borneo, where they have elongated upper tail coverts, unlike those found further west, including tropical India. The females and immature birds are all over a sort of bluish-green colour, but the adult male, such as the one I have shown in my painting, are brilliant, metallic blue above, and velvety black below. The glistening blue derives from the specialized microstructure of the blue feathers, which have a vaguely enamel-like feel to them. Brilliant in sunlight, in forest shade the blue and black combination can provide excellent camouflage. This is one of my favourite “pandemic paintings”, done during the Covid-19 pandemic lock-down, not because if it my “best”, but because in its simplicity it does what I achingly wanted to do when I was a child, struggling for competence in the practice of painting birds, and also desirous to illustrate not only the North American species I saw so often portrayed by great bird artists and illustrators of my era, but the exotic species I hoped to one day see, in their native haunts. And while it emulates, is in fact something of an homage to, the classic bird book illustrations of my mid-20th century childhood, it also is distinctive in that it is in oils, not the watercolour and gouache normally employed by my childhood bird artist heroes. The painting, life size, is in oils on compressed wood panel and is 12 X 9 inches. $700.00. Sold
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March 11th, 2021
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