Artist Don Conroy paints a bird of prey with a kestrel as a model.
Using a water colour board, some brushes, water and paint, Don Conroy gets to work.
This week I wanted to do a painting with a kestrel in it.
As he works on the painting he informs viewers about the life of the protected species of the kestrel.
They are protected species and they belong in the wild.
While he paints a kestrel in a bogland setting the kestrel can occasionally be found in urban settings.
While the kestrel acting as a model is relatively wild and has little experience of people it is quite content to perch and pose while Don Conroy paints.
Surviving on a diet of mainly mice and rats, kestrels are considered useful to farmers.
This episode of 'Paint For Fun' was broadcast on 17 February 1987. The presenter is Don Conroy.
'Paint For Fun' was a ten minute programme broadcast each Friday and introduced by Ian Dempsey on Dempsey’s Den. The programme features Don Conroy demonstrating the techniques of painting, cartoons and illustrations. The young viewers were encouraged to send in their work and it would be shown.
