Tharulya's Diaries

  This is the painting I did day-before-yesterday (October 4 2021). This is the grey heron we saw in October 03 2021 when we went to the Pepilyana marsh in the evening. This grey heron is popping its head out of the paddy and weeds in the paddy field. Done with colour pencils.   I did this painting today (October 6 2021). This is my male fighter fish, who I named Blue. I used two different photos to paint this. One photo of Blue, and one photo of my aquarium for the background. Blue is staying inside the log of my fish tank. I have painted Blue’s father, Redgem, in a different painting too. Following is that painting. In Blue’s painting, I painted the inside of the log and the tree on the edge of the painting with watercolours. I did the outer bit of the log with pastel. And Blue with colour pencils.    

  Four paintings I did in September,2021. The first one is two egg-laying (called spawning) Common Clownfish (Amphiprion Ocellaris). They both are spawning in a cave under their home sea anemone. The female tends the eggs. And the male waits in the background. This painting is done with colour pencils. The next painting is a coconut tree in the beach.    this is done with pastel. The next painting is an Adult Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) feeding its chicks.   The adults have built the nest in a garden full of trees. This painting is done with colour pencils too. The last painting is a stamp of a White-faced Starling (Sturnus Senex). I did this painting in September too. This one too is done with colour pencils. I did one today (October 3 2021) too. following is that painting. It is a male Orange Migrant butterfly (Catopsilia Scylla) on a small plant. This butterfly belongs to the family Pieridae. This one is done with colour pencil...

  Painting I did today (September 5, 2021). This is a Guppy fish tank. There are the water plants straight Vallis, Amazon Swords and a Cabomba plant. There is one male Rainbow Guppy, two male Blonde-Red Guppies, one male Dragonhead Tuxedo Guppy, two male Green Snakeskin Guppies, one male Neon-Blue Guppy and a female Guppy. There are two Bronze Corydoras, two Clown Loaches and two Coolie Loaches resting on the floor too. Done with colour pencils.  

  Painting I did today (September 3 2021). Two fish in the Amazon forest’s river. A Pike cichlid and the silhouette of the Red bellied Piranha in the distance. There are two water Lily plants, and both of them have flowers. A fallen log is on the pebbles. Pike cichlids have a spot in their caudal peduncle that looks like an eye. That is for protection against fin nipping Piranhas.   Done with colour pencils.    

    Painting I did today (August 30 2021). A green sandpiper looking for food. in a puddle In the middle of the paddy field on the Papilyana marsh. This is a wader bird. The puddle is surrounded with paddy plants, another short tree and some grass.   done with colour pencils.