CALF ISLAND.

Oh my god, these paintings have been published by Melissa Hafting, in the December 2017 and the March 2018 issues of "B.C. Birding" magazine. Also, I am now on Instagram as calf_island. A male Hooded Merganser with a scarf, from the march issue. A female King Fisher, from the December.

I love love love Hooded Mergansers. The original of this piece is 5" by 7" and for sale at $30. Also, cards with this painting will be for sale at the Tofino Christmas Craft fair Dec. 2 at the Tofino Community hall from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Hope to see you there.

     I love Cuckoos as you may know by my earlier post "Going Cuckoo". The Cuckoos that we have in Canada are the Yellow-billed Cuckoo and the Black-billed Cuckoo. If you were to compare this guy to any actual species it would be most similar to the Mangrove and the Squirrel Cuckoo. These birds seem kind of posh to me so I thought that they would match this tea very well.

     One of the suggestions that I received for a tea animal was a "coffee cheetah", this is obviously not exactly a tea animal but suggestions like this are welcome. The other piece is a Belted Kingfisher that was another request. Coffee Cheetah female Belted Kingfisher  

     Quail live all over Western North America. The kind of Quail that can be found in British Columbia is the California Quail. This is inspired by the Scaled Quail of the Southern U.S.A.. I have always thought that they seem so cozy. Chai tea seems the same, so I thought that they would be a perfect fit.

     I love owls and I love earl grey so hear are the results of mixing a bird with a drink, yet an other tea animal.

     Over the last few months I have developed a bit of a tea obsession, so I have decided to draw "tea animals" that will embody certain types of tea. The drawings of these animals will not be for sale. I will post these creatures as I create them and you can comment ideas for paintings involving the different tea animals, if I use one of your ideas to create a piece then it will be for sale. This is the Oolong Tea-lizard.