Finished! My new #painting is 'Magpies’ Treasure.'
There's gold & jewels (& other trinkets #Detectorists & #SmallProphets fans will recognise) but for the #birds the real treasure is those eggs.
More info: https://janetomlinson.com/products/magpies-treasure

#watercolour size 435mm x 324mm

But here's the shocker... studies show that magpies are NOT actually attracted to shiny things! They’re cautious around unfamiliar things. Their curiosity and intelligence may have inspired the myth, which lives on in folklore - and in my painting.

#magpie #picapica #corvids #crows #art

My #painting of #magpies treasure has now moved on to the nest itself. Lovely, fiddly, detailed & painstaking work in a symphony of umbers.

And yes, in a nod to #detectorists, I DID add a cycling proficiency badge, just like the one I had in the 1970s.

#workinprogress #Picapica #corvids #art

If you've been watching the development of my #painting of two #magpies... the treasure is coming!

Should I add a cycling proficiency badge do you think?

#workinprogress #picapica #corvids #detectorists #smallprophets

My #painting of two #magpies and their treasure is progressing - though rather more slowly than I would like. I need a least an hour completely undisturbed to get any painting done and that has been hard to find!

Anyway, check out all those awesome colours in the plumage. Gosh, that was fun to paint.

My next task is to start on their treasure, all tangled up in the nest.

#WorkInProgress #picapica #detectorists #art

I've been watching the #magpies in the trees & orchard opposite our house. They're pretty busy this time of year!

And they've inspired me to draft a composition for a new #painting. This afternoon I added the first tentative jewels of #watercolour. There's not much to see here yet, but I think even from this crappy photo you can see there will be treasure!

(Plus there will be all kinds of things to enjoy if you're a fan of #Detectorists and #SmallProphets.)

#workinprogress #picapica #art

Ich habe bei #Detectorists viel über englische Geschichte gelernt.

Gelernt und wieder vergessen.

Die Serie ist einfach großartig.

#LappenjammerTV

I think #SmallProphets may be the best thing on #TV that I have seen for a long time. It is amazingly well written, directed, acted. It is beautiful and full of wonder.

It is on #BBC. Written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, who also has a small part in it (famous for #Detectorists and also being in #TheOffice).

#SmallProphets is the most joyful thing on TV since #Detectorists. Such warmth, humanity & acceptance as well as quirks & whimsy.

It's an antidote for a world that's gone completely BONKERS.

(UK viewers - binge the whole series on BBC iPlayer. We've already watched it thru 4 times.)

#MackenzieCrook (writer and director) is a bloody genius.