Northern Flicker in acrylics

I enjoyed painting this one - just love the position bird is standing on the rock.

An interesting fact about the Northern Flicker is even though it can climb trees and hammer on wood trunks to find food like any other woodpecker, it prefers to look for food on the ground namely ants.  It has a long barded tongue that it uses to lap them up.

Northern Flicker measures 8 x 6 inches and is painted on Raymar's feather lite canvas panel.

Many thanks to Nigel for the reference photo.

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Northern Flicker ACEo in acrylics

This one was a bit of a challenge to paint due to the markings and also the paint was drying a little bit too fast even though I was running the air conditioner!!!  It reached 39C yesterday. Ended up painting just the one painting yesterday mainly due to the paint drying so much faster.  It is a bit cooler today so I might try and paint another one this afternoon - just depends when the tennis ends - I want to watch the Federer and Hewitt match that is on this afternoon - should be a good match.

Northern Flicker's are part of the woodpecker family and found in most parts of Northern America, parts of Central America, Cuba and Cayman Islands. 

Northern Flicker measures 2.5 x 3.5 inches and is painted on 300gsm smooth Arches watercolour paper.

Many thanks to Rodney Campbell for the reference photo.

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