Rough-Legged Hawk, Wyoming, ON

I'm very pleased to now be selling my father's mixed media wildlife / birds of prey paintings here on my shop! 

• All paintings use a combination of traditional and digital techniques. The work begins with detailed drawings, in black or coloured graphite. Oil-painting washes are added before the image is scanned and completed with digital painting. All the prints on offer are somewhat smaller than the original works. 

• Prices are for museum quality giclée prints on canvas with stretcher frames included. Prints on paper, and some smaller sizes are available upon request.

• Shipped directly from printer.  For non-North American orders, prints cannot be shipped with stretcher frames. Please email to inquire. 

Painting description:

The Rough-Legged Hawk (or Buzzard) is a large Buteo, like the Red-tailed Hawk, and is of a similar size, but with slightly narrower wings and longer tail. Like the Snowy Owl they breed in the arctic in summer and migrate further south in winter. There is quite a bit of colour variation – some birds are almost completely dark brown with very little streaking, but the characteristic plumage shows a broad brown chest-band, white head with heavy streaking, a white tail with a dark band and a square dark carpal patch on the under wing. The painting depicts an individual in a field near Wyoming, Ontario. South-western Ontario, because of the extensive farm fields, is a prime area to see these birds in the winter months.