Flying raptors paintings
My latest works are these flying bird illustrations and silhouettes for a Birds Guide to Sit Natura 2000.
I made this paintings in Photoshop with my Wacom Pen tablet. I tryed to illustrate juvennile and adult or male and female birds with their typical plummage.

Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina)

Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus)

Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)

Goshawk ( Accipiter gentilis)

Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo)

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

- Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina)
- Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus)
- Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
- Goshawk ( Accipiter gentilis)
- Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo)
- Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
The feeding Waxwing
I made this photo of feeding Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) but the auto-focus fixed to the bush and the bird come blurry. So I decided to paint the Waxwing because I liked the feeding position and the flying berry.
Here is the original photo:

Here is the Photoshop painting of the Waxwing.
The image has 33x27cm at 300dpi.

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Saker Falcon on the book
Originally I painted this falcon for the Romanian IBA book cover.

Now I decided to add some background and finish the image.
Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) digtal paint 15x11cm at 300DPI. Painted in Photoshop.

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Bad European Water Shrew photo
Here I’ll show how I tunned up this bad photo of European Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens)
First I cutted out the shrew from the background and calibrated the color balance.

Next, I pasted the new background.

There is the photo after correction. :)
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My back works
My early painting was made with Photoshop due to my designer job I use this software all day and night :)
My first paint was this Kingfisher (Alcedo athis). All my digital paints I start whit a new document with white background. I use an 50% brown brush to finish a sketch of the bird. Next I begin to add some colour to the picture using a large brush. I’m not concerned with the details too much, just trying to pick the right colours. After I set the colours I begin to add details with a smaller hard brush with different opacity. Well, I keep doing this until I’m happy with the result of the detail and harmony of colors and forms. In the end I do a small adjusting of the three-dimensional aspect of the kingfisher with the Burn and Dodge tools.

Unfortunately the original digital file of this kingfisher I lost. Only this print what I have but due to the early inkjet technology (1999) the resolution is not as good as today inkjet prints. :(
Here are some details from the print:

This Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) I painted in 2006. Here I painted a dark background to emphasize the brownish colors of the dipper.
The size of the work is 15,74×8,48 inch at 400DPI.

Here are some details from the paint:



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