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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Welcome back, Nick! I, along with many others, thought you'd left BF to form some 'professionals only' blog or something with Mr. Wooton! Tut, tut - I can be soooo cynical! From this point on I'll be visiting your new thread. Just gotta say that the RTD and GGS are simply phenominal. I'm...- RussB
- Post #3,666
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
He's certainly back with a vengeance! Another superb collection of work. My picks of the bunch are the sarnie terns - what drama captured with just three or four tones of blue and grey! - and the snipe - that's just phenomenal. Russ- RussB
- Post #3,645
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
An amazingly diverse set of works, here. In my humble opinion the Rough-leg is pick of the bunch, by far. I'd have it on my wall - no messing, it's superb. I'd like to be party to what the criteria is re getting work accepted. It's a funny old world. Perhaps I ned to keep up with the times! Russ- RussB
- Post #3,629
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Just caught up with the ever more inspirational field sketches. The waders, the guls, the terns are all the dog's bxxxxxxs. I just love the shapes of the sandies and knot, just soooooo alive and right. To me, this is what it's all about. The fantastic observation here is what I strive for...- RussB
- Post #3,615
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
The words taken right out of my mouth! It's difficult to know where to start here. Excellent work with the gulls. It's always great to see how these captivating birds are rendered in the hands of those in the upper echelons of BF. The page of meds are truly inspiring and raw as they come. Three...- RussB
- Post #3,563
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Another superb collection here. What a prolific chap you are. Just to do one of my black and whites takes hours of thought and then usually three or four attempts to get into it - hey presto! An evening's gone! My faves are the ouzels and pecker for the skillful handling of the 'black' plumage...- RussB
- Post #3,545
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
I can't ever see me being in the position of flogging paintings so I'll pass on the business side of things and concentrate on the fine art work. Great to see superb sketchwork, again. That Wryneck is masterly done - I love the simpicity of how you've portrayed that complex plumage pattern. So...- RussB
- Post #3,494
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Yikes, more examples of simply astonishing art. The willingness to 'push the boat out' here has no doubt been developed over many years. My faves are the RP and Wood Sand -both superbly rendered. From the opposite end of the spectrum I've just been admiring your b and w's - many thanks for the...- RussB
- Post #3,475
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
One day maybe I'll be qualified to comment on work like this! The winners, for my rather philistine pallate, are the Collared Fly's (my mind boggles over how you're suppose to paint heavy foliage like this), the lesser spot, and the resting griff. My first daubings with a brush are done with the...- RussB
- Post #3,451
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Oh Lordy, another visual feast. Very difficult to pick stand outs here again but for me it's the yelow wag and wader fest and the owls. With the former it sems you're almost venturing into Darren Woodhead territory with all what's going on, and the owl pic is magnificent - I just love the...- RussB
- Post #3,430
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Another spread of first class, inspirational fieldwork. I am now, ahem, trying to work this way myself! When just a few lines say loads more than five hundred, then this must surely be the way to go. But when whitethroats pose like this chappy, then the boots can be filled with a bit of detail...- RussB
- Post #3,401
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
I love these flight sketches, Nick! Superbly done. A bit more detail added as you get into the bird, but no titivating. These birds may have a distinctive shape, but capturing it as accurately as this is no mean feat. If only I had big raptors hanging around long enough to sketch 'em! Russ- RussB
- Post #3,390
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
About time I caught up! Another visual treat, Nick. Actually, as a bloke with a funny taste in bird art, my faves here are the illustrative work! All these are exquisitely done, but the dipper, hunched shrike and black woodie are superb. The cranes, too have got me drooling. Just thinking how...- RussB
- Post #3,379
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
I feel such a philistine sometimes when reading other's appreciative comments of such work as shown here! I love theses snipe, though. A real diversion from your usual style but however you've done it, it's extremely clever. Sometimes I think I should buy one of those 'Join the dots' kids...- RussB
- Post #3,333
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
What a feast of colour, style and drama! The cranes and the cormorant/med gull composition are superb and are my faves from this latest bunch. Alas, as wondrous as the others look I would no doubt appreciate them tons more if painted myself. My tastes are not the norm, though: I like corn beef...- RussB
- Post #3,320
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Simply marvellous sketching. As Mike says, so much down on the paper so quicky, but more to the point, all the right lines. I've found , when working rapidly, my hand sometimes moves faster than my brain, and inevitably the results are no where near as good as this. The peckers are quite superb...- RussB
- Post #3,294
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
I love these lastest examples of your work. All these are superbly done, but my faves are the greenfinches. The chubby cheeks and that cross expression has been captured perfectly.As ken says, they have a marvellous feeling of solidity about them. Wonderful. Russ- RussB
- Post #3,263
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Oh yes, anyone who can paint wildfowl is alright in my book, and these pochard are great! If the pochard are great then the Great Grey is magnificent. I love how you've deftly painted those subtle hints of dark and light on the bird's mantle. I remember you saying these birds didn't exist 12...- RussB
- Post #3,239
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Another wow when faced with this wonderful spread! Is that actually a pair of mallard? This species is a forum first for me! Great to see wildfowl cropping up in your work, Nick, and the accompanying goosanders are amazingly well done. I love it all and then there's the 1st winter Med..... BF...- RussB
- Post #3,222
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Wonderful, wonderful sketching, Nick. The bar seems to be getting higher and higher. I ought not to look at stuff this good anymore! Russ- RussB
- Post #3,209
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Never sketched a bitten, well not properly. Guess what? The interesting bits were hidden. Superbly done, these two. I find the rendering of the 'typha' and 'phrag' (latin names come from helping out mangaging a local nature reserve) as good as the bird's plumage. Excellent. The clock face - no...- RussB
- Post #3,172
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
It seems he's back in style. The third page! I've never been demoted off the first page, such is the motivation I get from BF. How many pages ae there anyway? Back to these latest wonders. Drawn straight to the Bewicks - not seen one for years and I don't think anyones sketched or painted one in...- RussB
- Post #3,157
- Forum: Wildlife Art
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
Congrats from me too! Just flicked through 'Birdwatch' in Smiths (I no longer buy it as its the same old , same old every time, and we're entering a time of austerity) and I was immediately drawn to the Blackcap and a certain Mr. Derry. Not sure If I've seen this particular work before but a...- RussB
- Post #3,143
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
These latest peregrine sketches are pure class! You are the master of putting down only the vitals of the bird - it's as if they don't need anything else - and they don't. A few scribbles here, nice line there and a bit of shading here - wonderful stuff. Russ- RussB
- Post #3,134
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Welcome to Nick's dining room table.
More top-notch stuff here. I particularly like the stork sketches - lovely sweeping lines that, once again, seem so right. Great to see gadwall, too. Very clever how you've sketched out a ready made composition so quickly. I'll add my penny's worth about comapring the biodiversity of the UK to...- RussB
- Post #3,111
- Forum: Wildlife Art