Recent Paintings
Here’s a little peek into what I’ve been doing in the studio lately…

Winter Day, oil, Sandi Hester
Here’s a little peek into what I’ve been doing in the studio lately…
Winter Day, oil, Sandi Hester
Well, if you haven’t picked up on this yet I like to paint birds. I’m trying my best to get caught up on all the paintings I have to share with you – I’m WAY behind, so I thought I’d share a cluster of my bird paintings with you. I’m still working on getting good at photographing my oil paintings so I apologize because some of these didn’t photograph very well but I just didn’t take the time to redo them. Most, if not all, of these birds are finches. Click on any of them to see them larger.
This oil painting was done more like my sketches in my sketch books. I like doing simple line drawings with notes and I thought I’d see how that would turn out on a canvas and I like how it looks. I did another one of a single bird but can’t find the picture of it – if I find it or decide to take another picture of it I’ll post it.
I don’t know what it is about this bird but I’ve painted it a lot – in watercolor, acrylic, and oil (you’ll have to wait to see it in oil – I’m going to post all my acrylic paintings first). I should show you the photo I’ve been painting from – it’s in some old bird book I found at a used book store. I just love the colors on him – that blue beak just calls to be painted! You’ll be seeing a lot more versions of this little guy – I’ve painted him a lot.