Crawhall, again.

The white drake combines Crawhall’s detailed observation with his strong sense of formal design. He captured the play of dappled light across the bird’s feathers and used the meadow grass to help define the space. The daisies and dandelions contribute both to the sense of recession and to the composition’s decorative character, creating a rich surface pattern. Crawhall tended to work from memory and imagination, but based his work on his intense observations from life. His interest in Japanese prints and Chinese wash drawings on silk inspired watercolours like this one, which is painted on linen.
Date: 1895. Current held in storage at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.  George Westwater