MATERIALS
• Primed artists’ canvas – 24 x 24 inches.
• Artists’ acrylics: Titanium White; Ultramarine Blue; Phthalo Blue; Cadmium Yellow Mid; Quinacridone Magenta; Crimson.
• Number 2 Art Spectrum fan brushes; and a quarter inch Taklon oval brush.
• Sea sponge or modified kitchen sponge.
When I planned and planted my gardens 13 years ago, I deliberately bought a great deal of plants with ‘bird attracting’ on the labels. I envisaged a garden full of colourful parrots and lorikeets. Although the gardens do attract a great abundance of birdlife, it is rare to see any parrots or lorikeets. Last year however I was delighted when a flock of Rainbow Lorikeets decided to drop in and devour the seeds of a couple of mature Queen Palm trees we have near the house.
The lorikeets only
