Lost in the Florida Scrub –Canvas Print

Signed & Numbered by the artist only to 200. Image size approximately 11 ½ by 18. Printed with archival inks and spray-coated with UV varnish.
Florida Scrub Jays in their natural Scrub Oak habitat.
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""Featuring one of my favorite birds (and I know a fascination of many Florida residents,) the distinctively wonderful Florida Scrub Jay in its natural and dense scrub oak habitat. With my new approach of using a sculpted buildup of molding-paste, I have finally been able to recreate intricately crisscrossed, delicate breast feathers. An effect I have always strived for, giving great realism to the foreground bird. With my new paintings, I am trying to go beyond what any photograph might do, “recreating reality” with 3-dimensional structure and dramatic color contrast. This piece is largely thanks to a forest ranger who bands Scrub Jays in the Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve, he took me on a hike early one morning into the almost-impenetrable scrub. We hiked without a trail, the rough branches repeatedly scraped my arms. With a raspy whistling sound, he called the birds out to us. I was able to get remarkable photographs to work from, pictures that not only captured detail, but the actual inquisitive character of the birds. It was all of these elements that I tried to bring forward into this one painting."" -Peter R. Gerbert
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