{"url":"https://folksy.pro/items/8307950-bird-on-a-perch-peregrine-falcon","title":"Bird on a Perch: Peregrine Falcon","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","provider_name":"Folksy","description":"This is a pastel painting of a peregrine falcon at rest on a tree stump but keeping a watchful eye out for its next meal. It was created using Faber Castell pastel pencils on Fabriano Ingres pastel paper. These were the materials I had started with while learning pastel art and I continued to use them for a while as I was developing.\r\n\r\nThis painting was completed as a sort of 'homework' for an art group that I attended for a while, until the art tutor retired. It also made it into the selection for our end-of-year art exhibition. I decided to give the painting a blurred background, akin to a short-focus photograph, so that I could concentrate on the close-up detail of the bird and the tree stump.\r\n\r\nIt was intended as the first of a series of paintings under the banner 'Bird on a Perch' and since I love birds of prey, I decided to start with one and chose this peregrine falcon. The series has not developed as I had hoped, chiefly because I seem to have been doing a lot of landscapes instead, but it is still in mind and will feature various species of birds on a variety of perches\r\n\r\nThe painting measures 18 x 28 cm (or 31 x 41 cm in its cream coloured mount).","brand":"Mike Shayler Pastels","product_id":8307950,"availability":"in stock","quantity":1,"product_expiration":"2026-05-16T11:47:29+00:00","images":["https://imagedelivery.net/0ObHXyjKhN5YJrtuYFSvjQ/i-45284f5a-859b-4277-a0a6-a66e83986e7e-bird-on-a-perch-peregrine-falcon-scruff-monkey-art/public"]}