Hummingbird and Fuschia
by Debbie Hart
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$500
Dimensions
20.000 x 20.000 x 3.000 inches
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Title
Hummingbird and Fuschia
Artist
Debbie Hart
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This piece started initially as just a botanical piece. As with most pieces, after staring at it, I felt it lacked a certain "life" to it. It eventually came to me while relaxing lake-side, watching the baby hummingbirds, that a hummingbird would be perfect. I had recently started working in a square format, and compositionally-speaking, the picture began to take form before my eyes. Finally after glazes and glazes and using fuschia directly from the tube, I felt I had something special.
The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a small hummingbird. It is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River in North America.
The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird is 7�9 cm (2.8�3.5 in) long and has a 8�11 cm (3.1�4.3 in) wingspan. Weight can range from 2 to 6 g (0.071 to 0.21 oz), with males averaging 3.4 g (0.12 oz) against the slightly larger female which averages 3.8 g (0.13 oz). Adults are metallic green above and greyish white below, with near-black wings. Their bill, at up to 2 cm (0.79 in), is long, straight and very slender. As in all hummingbirds, the toes and feet of this species are quite small, with a middle toe of around 0.6 cm (0.24 in) and a tarsus of approximately 0.4 cm (0.16 in). The Ruby-throated Hummingbird can only shuffle if it wants to move along a branch, though it can scratch its head and neck with its feet.
The species is sexually dimorphic. The adult male, shown in the photo, has a ruby red throat patch, also known as a gorget which may appear black in some lighting, and a dark forked tail. The female has a dark rounded tail with white tips and generally no throat patch, though she may sometimes have a light or whitish throat patch. The male is smaller than the female, and has a slightly shorter beak. A molt of feathers occurs once a year, and begins during the autumn migration. (Wikipedia)
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November 11th, 2012
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Comments (28)
Lingfai Leung
Stunning painting of hummingbird and Fuschia, Debbie. I almost thought it's a photo as it looks so realistic. Voted/Fave
Debbie Hart
Thank you so much Mary. It's one of my favorites. I've done two of a hummingbird and fuschia and would like to do a lot more.
Mary Machare
This is an exquisite painting, Debbie. The composition, the handling of the light and the colors used make this a painting one comes back to again and again. vf
Debbie Hart
James and Cheri! Thank you so much for the nice words! I hope to try and recreate this with some reference photos of plants and birds taken this past summer.