Wildlife work impressed by spring

Welcome to this assortment of work impressed by wildlife in spring. Curated to carry spirits as winter involves an finish and the solar begins to shine, the gathering options the birds and animals you’re most certainly to see right now of yr. Scroll on to get pleasure from art work that includes birds perched in spring blossom, ducklings nestling underneath their mom’s wings and lambs gamboling by way of the spring countryside. And for extra spring-inspired artwork see my spring artwork assortment.

Birds in spring blossom

With a backdrop of blowsy cherry blossom, this assortment of fowl work sings with the colors and the spirit of spring. 

Birds are beginning to nest and are seen now as they busily flit about amongst the blossom.  I usually prefer to pose birds on branches with blossom as I believe they make good compositions.

Easter ducklings

It wouldn’t be springtime with out photos of ducklings and chicks. The portray beneath, Simply Hatched, is so well-liked right now of yr I’ve even used it on a few of my giftware, together with an exquisite kitchen worktop saver: Click on right here to view. 

Easter artwork chicks 

The child fowl within the portray beneath is a lapwing. I watched this cute chick because it hatched from its eggs. Lapwings usually lay their eggs in open arable fields and their survival is precarious right now of yr when farmers are ploughing. I watched this one, nevertheless, on a strip of conservation land particularly put aside for lapwings.

The sound of a curlew’s name ringing out is one thing I all the time affiliate with the onset of spring and naturally these cute chicks are the epitome of the season.

Examine how I watched the mother or father birds fiercely defend these chicks from a pheasant that strolled just a little too near the nest by clicking right here. 

Easter bunnies 

Feminine hares go to their younger so sometimes that the sight of tiny leverets within the fields by themselves in springtime is regarded as the supply of the Easter Bunny fantasy. Whether or not that is true or not bunnies have actually grow to be the symbol of Easter and chocolate ones at that. Personally I desire wild leverets any day.

Click on right here to learn concerning the day I watched the leverets within the portray above and to study extra concerning the Easter bunny fantasy.

Spring lambs 

Springtime is lambing season right here within the UK when the fields within the countryside come alive with these bouncing, bleating, lovable animals. I painted this some years in the past but it surely has remained a well-liked print and is out there on my placemats right here.

The above work are amongst my hottest, however they’re simply the tip of the ‘thawing’ iceburg. Click on right here to see extra wildlife artwork impressed by spring and right here’s to summer time!