Gold Finch Canvas Print

I'm fond of these little birds, having saved a featherless baby Gold Finch from certain death after it had fallen from it's nest high in a tree. I raised it into a full adult bird. I painted this Goldfinch many years ago using gouache on Canson Mi-teintes paper. The painting was photographed using 35 mm slide film, the best of it's time. The image was actually improved by post processing the slide image to make it look like an oil pastel painting.

Member of the International Guild Of Realism. Inducted into the Grumbacher Artist Hall Of Fame. ARTIST STATEMENT 'My aim is to provide the visual stimulus to reconnect with nature, to renew body, mind and spirit through the imagery that I capture of the natural world with brushes and paint and through my camera lens. I hope that you find an image in my collections that will enhance your life." ABOUT THE ARTIST ~ FRANK WILSON As far back as my memory serves me, I was a creative. My family says I was born with a crayon in my mouth. Drawing, building things, making pictures with crayons were an everyday staple in my early childhood. While hospitalized in the eighth grade for some respiratory problems, an Aunt gave me a...