Kingfisher - Afon Dyfrydwy (River Dee)
Kingfisher - Afon Dyfrydwy (River Dee)

This Kingfisher is painted on a vintage map of a section of the Afon Dyrydwy in the Overton area

Kingfishers are found near clean, shallow, and slow-moving fresh water, including rivers, lakes, and canals.

They are wonderful subjects to paint with those vibrant colours but did you know that Kingfisher feathers contain no blue pigment at all! That blue we see (or think we see) is an extraordinary trick of physics - the colour is created by microscopic air pockets in the feather barbs that scatter light in a way our eyes read as an iridescent electric blue.

It is mounted in a 8x8" mount

Watercolour on vintage OS map £75

plus postage

TO PURCHASE CLICK HERE

Kingfisher - Afon Dyfrydwy (River Dee)

This Kingfisher is painted on a vintage map of a section of the Afon Dyrydwy in the Overton area

Kingfishers are found near clean, shallow, and slow-moving fresh water, including rivers, lakes, and canals.

They are wonderful subjects to paint with those vibrant colours but did you know that Kingfisher feathers contain no blue pigment at all! That blue we see (or think we see) is an extraordinary trick of physics - the colour is created by microscopic air pockets in the feather barbs that scatter light in a way our eyes read as an iridescent electric blue.

It is mounted in a 8x8" mount

Watercolour on vintage OS map £75

plus postage

TO PURCHASE CLICK HERE