A Gathering of Cardinals

by Janette Boyd

Title

A Gathering of Cardinals

Artist

Janette Boyd

Medium

Photograph - Photo/texture/digitially

Description

Photo of three male cardinals and one female cardinal, looking down on lunch of sunflower seeds. Original image of clouds was merged with single cardinals and added, one at a time to the cloud image, using Corel Paint Photoshop, using brushes and blending. Final texture of canvas hatch marks was added.

Featured in the following FAA Groups:
*All Natural Scenery and Landscapes
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*The World We See
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*Painting Cafe
*Amazing FAA Photographs
*3 A Day AAA Images
*Clouds Always the Same but Never the Same
*Images that Excite
*Anything Photographs
*All Cards for All Occasions 2 A Day

Thank you to all the FAA Group Administrators for featuring my artwork.

The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any other bird. They are a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness, and style: a shade of red you cannot take your eyes off. Even the brown females sport a sharp crest and warm red accents. Cardinals don't migrate and they don't molt into a dull plumage, so they are still breathtaking in winter's snowy backyards. In summer, their sweet whistles are one of the first sounds of the morning.
Courtesy of http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Cardinal/lifehistory

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January 1st, 2015

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