CALF ISLAND.

This is a watercolour painting of a California Quail. It took a tiny bit longer than I expected to paint because of the scaled feathers on the back of the neck, but I am happy with how it turned out! I painted this using Winsor & Newten paints and Sukura pens. This piece is 8" by 10", framed and for sale at $45

This is an original watercolour painting of a Trumpeter Swan that will be sold to the highest bidder at the Tofino Winter Christmas Market Saturday Dec.7 https://tourismtofino.com/event/winter-artisan-market-3/   100% of the proceeds will be donated to Ducks Unlimited Canada https://www.ducks.ca/   to help protect the habitat of the Trumpeter Swan. It is 8.5" by 11" framed.  Starting bid is $20

Christmas is coming and you know what that means! A brand new series of holiday cards. I love showing people the beautiful and sometimes overlooked birds of Tofino and the west coast. This year I have five watercolours of my favorite local birds printed on environmentally certified paper. These will be for sale at the Winter Artisan Market, at the Tofino Community hall on December 7th from 10am to 2pm.  https://tourismtofino.com/event/winter-artisan-market-3/ They are also available by mail (with additional shipping costs). They are 5" by 7" and for sale at $6 each or a set of all five for $25. Red Phalarope Brant Goose Downy Woodpecker Western Tanager Osprey  

     This spring brake, my family and me went to West Mexico. It was so so so amazing to be able to see some of these beautiful birds, not to mention how nice it was to photograph them. The Nayarit aria has many endemics like the Citreoline Trogon and Golden-crowned Emerald. Enjoy! Reddish Egret, fishing Citreoline Trogon Golden-crowned Emerald Elegant Trogon Ferruginous Pygly-owl Black-necked Stilt Streak-backed Oriole Reddish Egret Ferruginous Pygmy-owl

     I have been doing art for as long as I can remember but something that I just really got in to is photography. When I went to Costa Rica in 2015 I took lodes of photos, and I kind of took the hobby home with me. This year, for my Birth day my wonderful parents got me the new Nikon camera so I have been taking some really fun pictures with that. The Okanagan Valley turned out to be the photographers dream, this summer. Hear are some of the photos that i took, enjoy!

       This one is a Rooibos tea Kangaroo.

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.