Chris Osborne Art

The trouble with painting on black paper is once you add a background it's hard to tell if the image is a day or night time scene.

It is such a good feeling to know that my artwork will be hanging in peoples homes in the local community of Miles.

About a month ago I was photographing birds in the backyard with my 600mm lens and I spotted a grey butcherbird, which seemed to find a bit of peanut butter that...

I always get excited when new prints arrive in the post and I must say that Springwood Printing did a fabulous job on these latest artworks.

One of my favourite animals at the zoo, and most difficult to photograph it seems is the emu. They are always on the move and never seem to be looking at...

So I was down by the dam looking for some waterbirds to photograph and found a family of magpies and a rather amusing juvenile sitting on a wooden seat, so here...

I decided on a pose where the swan definitely thought I was up to something and had some trust issues. I guess it was just protecting its child from paparazzi with...

The adult black swan was seen gliding around the surface using its long neck to reach down and filter through the weeds growing on the bottom of the pond.

This wonderful cygnet was photographed at Lake Alford Park next to the Gympie gold mine and historical museum. The cygnet was swimming around submerging it head under water and coming up...

As the water receded it created some marvellous tree root patterns in the sand that could be totally transformed by the very next wave that washed over them. Waves are marvellous...

Something else that happed by accident as I was creating lines and folds in the tree bark, a word appeared. mom with a little u under the o so you also...

I managed to photograph another double barred finch while house sitting at a friends house in Eidsvold. It jumped up, pulled down the grass seeds so it could have a feed,...

Australian magpies are a beautiful, intelligent birds and very fun to watch, but they get a bad reputation around nesting time. This one was photographed at the back of the BBQ...

So I went for a walk behind my cottage at Possum Park where I'm currently staying and went looking for a nice burnt tree stump to paint.

I was walking around Australia Zoo when I spotted this white faced heron looking for some lunch among the water lilies. I managed to get a nice photograph of the heron...

when I started taking these photos I didn't think that they would end up as one of my best paintings as I was more into making videos at the time.

This is another one from Australia Zoo, the place I go to photograph difficult to find or unusual animals. I didn't realise that doves came in such bright colours and I...

The blue faced honey eater is a wonderful bird that hangs around my cottage every day, all year round. I often see it taking a drink from my bird bath or...

This little Pardalote was busy building it's nest or making home improvements maybe for a larger family, I'm not sure but it was wonderful to watch.

Well this is one of my favourite birds purely because of there comical antics they get up to if they like you. Be warned however if they take a disliking to...