Hummingbirds & Flight of the Rufus were painted for the Small Birds Show at the Corner Gallery in Everett. I had a desire to do something with a heron, but had to rethink much smaller. I decided to paint the little Hummingbirds who swarm our feeders each spring and summer. We’ve put up one feeder for the Annas and another for the Rufus, but there’s still a lot of fighting. One little guy sits up on the gutter and dive bombs intruders. I’ve named him “The Sentinel”.
I used an impressionistic realism for the Annas, but a much more abstract realism for the Rufus hoping to convey the velocity of their flight patterns.
Both paintings are 10 x 8 acrylic on canvas.
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