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Colonel Boris' scruffy old sketchpad. (1 Viewer)
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solitaryVSong
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Always the sign of a lively imagination I'd say. Doodling never gets the credit it deserves!
colonelboris
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Hopefully have another batch of drawings by the weekend to add. On a flight to Perth I found I'd forgotten my book, but still had pencil and paper handy, so I decided to try sketching people and trawled through the in-flight magazine for the most attractive woman in there. These are the second and third time I've tried drawing people (and without tracing the outline for change!).
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timwootton
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Lovely drawings Tony - showing a fine repertoire in the last couple of posts. Pencil and paper - it's all you need really, isn't it.
oivind egeland
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Very nice! I misunderstood at first, and thought you drew this from life. I wondered what kind of plane you were on.
colonelboris
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Thanks Tim, Bigshent and Oivind! Some rather odd drawings on the board at the moment involving four hard-to-find birds, an alarm clock and an 80s TV show. I'm rather enjoying drawing for this magazine!
timwootton
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. . . if we were on FB I'd have some retort - however I shall remain silent except to say that it's a lovely, well-handled piece of drawing.
colonelboris
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Originally, I believe it was supposed to be an alluring pose (in order to sell A$3,500 dresses, no less), but my rendering of it does look a little less savoury...
colonelboris
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Here's two sketches for an article: the first is on when birds don't follow what advice you've been given i.e. if you're not the first birder at Barren Grounds that day, you won't see the Ground Parrots, although Ed saw them at lunch time, in the car park. The second is from the same trip, based on the theme "I love it when a plan comes together" with the four target species.
I do get to draw some odd things with these articles...
I do get to draw some odd things with these articles...
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colonelboris
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Communism had nothing to fear from them. I often wonder if the crime they didn't commit was something to do with deliberately not hitting the enemy...
One more to draw on a rather sticky subject that will no doubt involve drawing people, which will be a first for this series of articles.
colonelboris
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Chav?! That's supposed to be Murdoch from the A-Team! Compare and contrast, you philistine:
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/7/2010/01/the-a-team.jpg
The article it's for is about making a detailed plan to see a set of birds (Beautiful Firetail, Pilotbird, Eastern Bristlebird and Eastern Ground Parrot) and how even if the birds don't do as everyone tells you, it's still great "when a plan comes together" (hence the A-Team theme).
Current lore is that if you're not the first person at Barren Grounds in the morning, you don't get to see the Ground Parrots and that Beautiful Firetails are hard to see, but Ed lost count of the firetails and saw the two Ground Parrots at lunch time (in the car park, no less).
The article's much better than I'm describing it...
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
My only A team experience was having the helicopter toy, which was confiscated when I made it 'fly' at a window. I imagine I was about five, but could have been eighteen. Ground parrots remind me of the little bitterns I saw this year, two dawn visits (in June!) and I finally see at least two at around 10am. Could have stayed in bed an extra 5 hours!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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like the A team
colonelboris
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This is for an article about taking birding far too seriously. A visiting birder on a pelagic got rather upset that the skipper took the ship to look at some whales and while a pair of snorkellers were in the water inspecting the whales for some research, he started shovelling burley and blood over the side. Off the coast at Sydney, you can get Bull Sharks and they're not at all fussy about what they eat. Naturally, the locals told him in no uncertain terms how dangerous that was, but he didn't care - he was only there to see the birds...
The editor's gone for this article over the other one with the A-Team/snoozing parrot.
The editor's gone for this article over the other one with the A-Team/snoozing parrot.
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timwootton
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Ha!! Great stuff. Engaging sense of humour those antipodeans possess, no? Good to see the birder had buoyant bins with him - at least they survived . . .
