Weaver bird

 Female weaver bird sitting in a chain link fence. As city dweller, this is how I often observe my wildlife!

HB pencil on 20 x 15 cm paper:

Other stuff I get up to...

Even witches need to rest

 Pencil drawing, digitally colored:

Prints are available - see link below.

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Whimsical things

 Been playing around with making pencil sketches and then adding color digitally. I had quite a bit of fun creating these rather whimsical, cartoonish designs:

Prints are available at Saatchi Art.

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Parked truck

 Acrylics on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

Saw these blokes busy with something or other, right across the street from me, so I took a quick photo for reference. The painting is only rather loosely based on it. I live in a rather dreary suburb, and have long complained that there is nothing to paint here. But of course, one should just look - there is something worth painting almost anywhere. Or at least, that's my current theory, which I intend to test by paying more attention to my own surroundings.

This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

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Calico cat in the grass

 Acrylics on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

House in Melchome street

 Oil on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm:

One of my occasional experiments in a more or less expressionist kind of style. 

This work is for sale, or will be as soon as it is dry enough to travel. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.

Boxer

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 20 cm:

This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com.