Original watercolor

Keeping the breach open

Young Peregrin Falcon.
Observation : 22nd April 2024 – 10:15. Rogaland.
Watercolor from field watercolor.

Story of the image (extract)

« Peregrine falcon in the distance in the heat haze. As is often the case in this kind of situation, I draw too big. It is small, too small, in the eyepiece of my spotting scope. However, I paint it large on my sheet of thirty by forty centimeters. The usual consequence is that I get annoyed not to see all the details on my falcon that I would like to put there. It’s simple though, I don’t see them, that’s all. He is too far away, too blurry, but my perception makes me believe that all I see is him. The great contrasts are there, the intense light of this April day can be seen in the image. I won’t have the details, I will have the light. That is fine by me. Leaving a little room for the overall vision, without getting lost in the flourishes that weigh down the painting.

However, I would have liked to get closer, to slip even further between the rocks and the folds of this coastal terrain. Capturing the corners of the beak, the organization of the feathers on the wings, the fine nuances on the head to give him all his character. This bird is not a year old and I hope he is still a little naive. I would have liked to move forward, a little more, without disturbing him, always a little more and then what? This fateful moment will come, so criticized for having come too close. That extra step that will make him fly away. Not this time. When my eye returns from the paper to the telescope, he is no longer there, nor in the sky or the surrounding area.
Vanished. »

Description

Dimensions : 31 x 41 cm

Paper: Arches 185 g / m², fine grain

Edition : 30 copies

Signed, numbered, with inscription of the place and date of the observation.

Each print is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity and the history of the image (available in English and French).

Price and ordering

Price: € 250 + shipping costs

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Delivery time: 1 to 2 weeks

Payment: by bank transfer or VIPPS (for Norwegian residents).

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  • write to me at adrien.brun@live.fr with your name, postal address and the title of the image.
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