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[Strandman]

the year is slipping by- plenty of plans for some more thoughtful and restrained watercolours in 2013

but meantimes the Waxwing has had a shot from the juice gun and comes with very best wishes to all

 

[username]

That's a screamer of a Waxwing Ed...love your style...as always....:t:

Have a great Christmas and all the best to you and your family.....B


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[timwootton]

Love it - and all the best to you and yours.

 

[buzzard12]

QED, a very elegant solution indeed Ed, which has balanced this piece beautifully..

Merry Christmas and seasons greeting to you and yours Ed, have a wonderful Xmas.

 

[solitaryVSong]

That's a screamer of a Waxwing Ed...love your style...as always....:t:

Have a great Christmas and all the best to you and your family.....B


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Merry Christmas Ed.

 

[Lykos]

beautiful...merry christmas for you and your family

 

[Bigshent]

I seem to of missed the finished Waxys Im so glad I had a peek in here, Brilliant Ed

 

[cjoakley]

Hi Ed - really like the second version with the line straightened a bit...looking forward to seeing how this all comes out...

 

[Strandman]

hello all

just before I plummet from the foot of page one- here's a doing started in November and only just completed after a few weeks or blimey it was a month? hiatus over Christmas

I dunno where it all went really, but I did do a bit of thinking + browsed more Warren and less Jonsson, with the result being some more layered detail and a slightly more grass-is-green sky-is-blue approach (which on this special day with Spotted Redshank and Twite in the thistles, it truly was).

also wrestling with the old conundrum of how you put in small birds that look OK but don't jar with the background: here's a Twite at a canvas resolution of about 15 stitches wide

 

[Bigshent]

You have nailed this one ED the habitat around the Shanks is something else B

 

[timwootton]

Like it a lot, Ed - colours are great too.

 

[JTMB]

Well done, and the palette used works nicely.

 

[Nick Sinden]

Love this painting...makes me want to go out birding immediately!

 

[buzzard12]

What a wonderful painting that Spot Shanks piece is, top piece of birding and artistic observation, love it Ed!

 

[solitaryVSong]

For who knows what reason I decided to go back and look at your thread from the beginning today. Who knows why. Made it to the beginning of 2008 and what a treat it was!

 

[Strandman]

For who knows what reason I decided to go back and look at your thread from the beginning today. Who knows why. Made it to the beginning of 2008 and what a treat it was!

Ken- I'm touched anyone would do that- with changing times and the march of techno, it seems that blogosphere and perhaps now Facebook foremost seem to be where artists can be seen unfurling in public. But the communal existence on this forum really got me rolling again from 2008, after the decades of sloth and distraction.

Currently I'm a bit bogged in a tragic repeating sequence of

1. hopelessly ambitious canvases, the latest (bittern n bullrushes) being seen here in its hosed-down state, before being consigned back to the rack

2. then by way of salvage, the idea re-worked (but still overdone) on a less grand scale on a bit o' file divider.

To escape the bogging, I know I should stop, sketch, dabble and learn, forget about big finished work for a little while. So that's the resolution for this spring up-coming.

 

[Strandman]

currently I would most like to be one of the Russian Realists, but I can see that for a number of reasons this is not going to happen

here's a favourite from Ilya Repin on the reading stand- in hard times, even minor aristocrats were sent out to scavenge potatoes left after the harvest, but they were allowed to use specially trained Rooks, like the one depicted here

 

[timwootton]

. . . and as appears in Jonsson's work (the Gleaners? or some such).

Whatever - the forum is, as you say, maybe a little ponderous in response to the fare offered (espec. regarding the 'likey-likey' of other more ethereal platforms), but you are so right to point out the permanence of this particular medium.

Love these latest reedy things Ed - and your continual striving/manipulation/rejection/recycling of ideas is one of my personal areas of sanctuary. Keep on, brother

 

[colleenc]

Ed you have something so many artists like me would love to have a totally unique personal signature style and vison. No one can teach you to have this, and in your case it is so special you cannot follow a path that would make you a "Russian Realist" you have to blaze your own trail, which is a joy to follow. Yes its harder than following a more traditional way, and yes you will have many dead ends and works that stymie you or need a Black and Decker....No matter just keep making your work, stay true to your vision and your art will teach it all to you. You violate many traditional "rules" of art sometimes. rules of composition or color or value, but when you hit it right its spectacular. So I think you may be a bit inconsistant in production, but that is part of your process and journey.

One thing that is traditional is to make small studies first, like your file folders, and when one of them works well, then you charge into a larger work, not vice versa as you describe in the bittern. Making a larger work is not just blowing up a small work, it can still be original, the small work just gives you hints and ideas for the larger work

so keep on keep us inspired with your work, you are an amazing and original artist

 

[solitaryVSong]

Ed you have something so many artists like me would love to have a totally unique personal signature style and vison. No one can teach you to have this, and in your case it is so special you cannot follow a path that would make you a "Russian Realist" you have to blaze your own trail, which is a joy to follow. Yes its harder than following a more traditional way, and yes you will have many dead ends and works that stymie you or need a Black and Decker....No matter just keep making your work, stay true to your vision and your art will teach it all to you. You violate many traditional "rules" of art sometimes. rules of composition or color or value, but when you hit it right its spectacular. So I think you may be a bit inconsistant in production, but that is part of your process and journey.

One thing that is traditional is to make small studies first, like your file folders, and when one of them works well, then you charge into a larger work, not vice versa as you describe in the bittern. Making a larger work is not just blowing up a small work, it can still be original, the small work just gives you hints and ideas for the larger work

so keep on keep us inspired with your work, you are an amazing and original artist

Tim and Colleen beat me to it Ed. Many artists I would guess envy your personal style and more your personal vision that you're trying to bring into fruition. I'm sure it is difficult at times, with wrong turns if not dead ends. But the path is yours. Many people don't even have paths and if they do they're often more someone else's than their own. Sometimes I think this is best for many artists. But my guess is that they all envy the original artist and that is what you are.