I have just started on a series of bird prints, featuring the birds that I see in and around my home. Not long ago we very rarely saw magpies in the city, but these days there are dozens around on the various street nature strips.
The Red Wattle birds seem to have always been here in this corner of the city. They are very large nectar feeding birds, and they seem to have no idea that they are too big for some of the flower stems that they land on, resulting in lots of broken vegetation where they have been.
The very pretty little Wrens do not occur in the city garden, but are quite common in the garden of our bush cottage.
All the backgrounds of these prints are made on the gelatine plate and I carved the birds from soft rubber and stamped them on the backgrounds, colouring by hand where necessary.
