Happy New Year and welcome to Paint Party Friday! This is a portrait of a gannet on good quality blue cardstock (6" x 6") in acrylic. It's a large seabird with a voracious appetite for fish that lives in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It led to an expression 'eat like a gannet' meaning you are a glutton.
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Fantastic painting. Happy New Year, hugs, Valerie
What a lovely 'smooth' looking painting. Seems it is a bird that can eat a lot - I remember my father telling my brother not to be a 'gannet' when he was being greedy.
Happy New Year to you and your family Christine
Happy new year to you too Christine. It's nice to see a post with more than just that. The Gannet looks wonderful.
Happy New Year Christine, I have never heard of this bird, it does resemble a Heron a bit,, lovely painting!!!
Rather striking bird!
Happy New Year, Christine!
Aloha from Hawaii.
A stunning painting, Christine, such a beautiful bird. We have a lot of these birds by the sea near here.
I'm admiring the way you painted the smooth blue background too.
A fabulous painting Christine! Happy New Year to you !
oxo
Susi
Happy New Year, Christine. Such lovely artwork to start the year off!
Happy New Year to you Christine,
He's a beauty and a great way to start off a creative 2016.
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Happy New Year, Christine! Your Gannet is beautiful! We're off bird watching this morning... our little New Years day tradition.
I adore birds. Your work is so charming.
Wow, Christine, that is a beautifully designed piece. Love your Gannet. I hope this doesn't mean that you feel like a glutton after last night's celebrations?! :) Happy New year to you.
Such a great painting. Happy PPF and new year too,
a beautiful creature. I only heard about this breed 2 yrs ago. We had found an injured sea bird on the beach; took it to a local sanctuary but sadly it didn't make it. We haven't seen any since. Happy PPF and a happy New Year too!
Beautifully done. Happy New Year!
What a wonderful painting! I love your bird! Happy new year to you Christine, I love visiting your blog. I'd never heard that expression before...
Yep that saying pretty much sums it up this Christmas...he is wonderful!! Nice start to the New year! Wishing you all the best!!
Hugs Giggles
Love this painting!! Wonderful! Happy New Year and PPF!
great painting, happy new years
Very nice painting. I didn't know about the bird or the expression.
Wishing you a very healthy and happy 2016. :)
~Jess
Christine, you just get better and better. This is awesome.
this is classy and beautiful, I like the eye, may I post this Christine
I've done it Christine, I hope it is okay
Thank you Lisa it is perfectly fine and ok!
This is really beautiful Christine!!
Your drawings are always so wonderful, this one especially so. Love it. Happy New Year, keep doing what you're doing.
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