Another of my older paintings which I did quite some time ago. In an earlier blog, I mentioned that the area around Plover Cove where I was living at the time had inspired me to do many paintings there, both in watercolor and in oil. This is one of my larger oils. The idea came from a Peregrine Falcon I saw while out exploring Tolo Harbor one afternoon. It had alighted not far from me on rocks near the shoreline so I carried the idea forward to my painting. In this work, I tried to capture not just the characteristics of the bird but also that of the misty landscape typical of the area. There were not usually a lot of birds to be seen there and I can’t say that I saw Peregrines that often but the few I did see were always exceptional and excitedly observed both through my binoculars and when possible, through my telescope. I would then have at least a chance of doing some studies of them in one of my sketchbooks that I always took with me. These studies were then used along with my memory to reconstruct the experience of seeing a peregrine in the wild – all the while hoping to capture something of what I felt when I first observed it.
The close up shows a little more of the bird's details. Size of the full painting is 30 x 40 in (76 x 102 cm), oil on canvas.
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