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Oh no thinking for sure, was too busy trying to balance the pochade, look in the scope and mix colors and paint with wonky brushes all at once, I also forgot the brace to keep the lid up so it was leaning on the scope and then falling over...Still I will keep this as my first one from life.

Another thing, I did a very brief sketch in my field book first, and that helped as the bird kept moving, I could look back a the sketch....so I think having both is worth while...the sketch was less than a min, so simple I think I like it better than the painting.
 
Here Coleen is my attempt at your task. Very liberating to do this I must add! Especially for someone like me who's paintings are on the detailed side at times. With this because I am at home at the mo in the studio I used a photo. However to make my task harder i made myself only refer to it five times. I did not use any pencils and the colours were Ultramarine blue, Burnt Umber, Sap green, Raw sienna all acrylic painted onto an old piece of Illustration board . It is very hard to stop yourself from carrying on!!!
I'm really pleased with the feeling of light I managed to capture and the image here is dull in comparison . Hope you like.
 

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Great sense of light Andrew. That's a whole lot that you got into 15 minutes, including grasses on lower right.

Thanks Ken, That's the beauty in Acrylics for me they are so fast and permanent and allow multiple layers very quickly. The grasses were painted in white then simple lay over with wash of Sap green.
 
yes, this is enough! what more could you say....just so beautiful, and enough to make me want to get out my acrylics...but where would I put them in my new pochade? :-O

this little work is just stunning...
 
Not wildlife, But in my Art classes, managed to paint a tree by painting the highlights only, under 10 minutes......
Impressed myself as I didnt use a pencil first, straight in with the loaded brush.....
 
I thought I had crammed quite a lot into my fifteen minutes until I saw the most recent offerings on here - great excuse for not painting the feet (in my case). But it seems some of you chaps would have taken care of them with time to spare..
 

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I thought I had crammed quite a lot into my fifteen minutes until I saw the most recent offerings on here - great excuse for not painting the feet (in my case). But it seems some of you chaps would have taken care of them with time to spare..

Superb! :t:
 
Can't say much for my 15 minute female Baltimore Oriole, even before I saw the newest work here! But not all of these will be successes. When I saw this bird I was struck both by the brilliant yellow of the chest, unlike orange in the male, and by the rich undercolors of yellow and orange in head and wing. So that's what I was trying to get here. Both sexes also have a light blue bill which I've only sort of gotten here. Also like the pose obviously and the way it seemed to make the chest stand out.
 

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With profound apologies . . .
My only excuse is I could not sleep (sore throat etc etc) so was leafing through the Great Man's work and happened upon one of my very favourite images. It's incredible just how complex these apparently 'quick' drawings are - and also, how revealing it is to study the process. Just look at the design; the convergance of solid/reflection/shadow with that so-elegant jagged curve of waterline where water meets land. It's soooo beautifully composed and so elegantly executed that these elements survive even my cack-handed daubing,
Genius!
 

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first Andrew....I don't see any pic on that post

Ed...captivating pose incisive rendering

Ken so full of flow and color, unstiff and alive

And I'd like to say there is not a single post that has not been a treat for the eyes...but the point is it's the act of painting not the result, that is coming to the fore for me....

I made some rubbish today futzing around with new media and unknown surfaces but I did like this one....on some weird stuff I picked up once looks like paper is stiff and cracks like glass, useless really, and watercolor beaded up on it unless scrubbed hard, this is wc enhanced with pastel on the bird...it's a godwit, about 5 min, done on the spot right before the joggers scared him off, not too godwit looking could even be a yellow leg, but something strikes me about it.
 

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Tim what a piece of work....how does one even see all that to put it down...looks like it's done on the back of an envelope, sheer genius...
 
Never apologize for putting an Ennion up Tim...!! That school of art is my all time favorite...[Talbot Kelly] etc...
Does anyone remember when the old RSPB mags..[back in the sixties/seventies]...used to have amazing artists works on their front covers?...i still have many copies...as many of them have Ennions on...!

ps...as always i often forget to comment....but just a belated...'wow...that blue shrike Ed'..!!! It really is blue...positively pornographic...!

pps...and Colleen...love your last pic...a beauty...:t:
 
Have to say that Ennion...... WOW, !! just perfect. Ed the shrike is great even without feet:-O and Coleen love that Godwit- yellowleg thingy!! its marvelous
 
Ennion didn't sign his name with a question mark! But I had to look twice ;-) One of my favourite pieces too.
 
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