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More Echo Parakeets

by Ria Winters

I’m still working on a series of Mauritius paintings and just finished this one of the Echo Parakeets. The problem with painting Echos is that they are all green and their natural surroundings are green as well. So it took me a while to think of a good way to portray them; it resulted in a mix of pencil drawing and watercolour paint..
The pencil drawings of the plant is the endemic fangame Stillingia lineata on which the Echos feed. This plant is abundant in the intermediate and upland forest; luckily it is not rare like many other endemic plant species on the island.



Close up of painting