Brave Bower

The Regent Bowerbird is a medium-sized, up to 25 cm long, sexually dimorphic bowerbird. The male bird is black with a golden orange-yellow crown, mantle, and black-tipped wing feathers. It has yellow bill, black feet, and yellow iris. The female is a brown bird with whitish or fawn markings, grey bill, black feet, and crown.

All male bowerbirds build bower to attract female mates. Regent bowerbirds are known to mix a muddy greyish blue or pea green "saliva paint" in their mouths which they use to decorate their bowers. Regents will sometimes use wads of greenish leaves as "paintbrushes" to help spread the substance, representing one of the few known instances of tools used by birds

This painting to honor this beautiful bird is a watercolour painted on rice paper using hot wax as a resist to create the flurry of rain. The artwork is in an MDF black frame, matted and is 43 X 43 cm.