Another quail

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a large panel, but it isn’t yet ready to post here so until it is, here’s a little quail, yet another in my series of Occasional Birds. On its own it’s a very simple design with little impact, and it relies on a good applique fabric to give it interest

A little quail

I was lucky enough to find some scraps of fabric in blotches of golds and browns which I'd painted to use with some other design, but which also worked very well with this one. Without the variegated colours of the fabric the design would have been so simple as to be boring, but as it is, it isn't too bad