Price range: $320.00 through $349.00
Expressive ink sketch of a charming Curlew bird with flowing lines and artistic splatter effects. Australian wildlife art.
Certificate of Authenticity Included
Every original artwork ships with a signed Certificate of Authenticity confirming title, medium, dimensions, and artist provenance. Created with archival-quality pigment ink on acid-free paper.
This ink sketch captures the quiet elegance of the Curlew, one of Australia’s most distinctive nocturnal birds. Rendered in expressive line work, the piece celebrates the bird’s characteristic curved beak and delicate proportions with a naturalist’s eye and an artist’s hand. The flowing lines follow the contours of feather and form, while deliberate ink splatters echo the bird’s restless, energetic nature—a creature of dusk and dawn, always in motion.
Created at Running Duck Studio in Dayboro, Queensland, this work sits within our Nocturnal Collection, exploring the intricate beauty of creatures that inhabit Australia’s twilight hours. The Curlew’s long, slender beak tells a story of adaptation and survival, evolved to probe soft earth for invertebrates. Through bold yet delicate mark-making, the illustration honours both the bird’s functional elegance and its aesthetic presence in the landscape.
The monochromatic palette emphasises the interplay between positive and negative space, inviting the viewer to complete the portrait through their own observation. Each spatter adds kinetic energy to what might otherwise be a static study. This is wildlife art that breathes.
