solitaryVSong
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A wealth of beautiful, sure and incisive sketches!
Agree absolutely with Tim in every word, my favorites ,your waders...Such quality going among with quantity is rarely seen...WOW - I've only just looked at these last studies - incredible. The pallid and whinchat drawings are very beautiful, but your colourwork with the waders is out of this world. Mate - these are so fabulous, it's difficult for me to find the words. The dunlin coloured pieces are among the very best field studies I've ever seen - terrific work.
Some superbly observed flight shapes in the petrel drawings and the terns and the gulls and the lbj . . . . . and then these coloured tern studies. All are splendid, but the morning sketch shows such mastery of form and light; a brave piece which evokes a real sense of being there (the water is also handled expertly, too).
All in all, a fabulous wealth of art and fieldwork, imminently publishable and saleable; more work here than I've produced in the field for over two years!!! and the consistant quality. . . amazing. just amazing.
Angarn received a visit too, another wetland inland to the north of Stockholm. Got myself a small Windsor and Newton field watercolour box, small, compact and handy..
Hi there! Me too, but I've not yet had the inclination to use it!
Where can I find another thread which features such fantastic subjects gulls; waders and raptors, and all effortlessly captured. The Pallid Harrier flight studies are most impressive, sir!
Would you tell me what paper you're using for the watercolour studies, Alan?
I've mentioned this before but there's no way i can afford to use decent watercolour paper the way I use my sketchbooks. Perhaps the answer is to take a few sheets out and copy the best efforts on to the w/c pad, or has someone already told me this?
Cheers
Russ
I've mentioned this before but there's no way i can afford to use decent watercolour paper the way I use my sketchbooks. Perhaps the answer is to take a few sheets out and copy the best efforts on to the w/c pad, or has someone already told me this?
Cheers
Russ
Russ,
One thing that might work for you if it's available across the pond is Aquabee's Super Deluxe sketchpad. I used to use it both for sketches and watercolor. It's nowhere near as nice a paper as Moleskine but is quite a bit cheaper I think. For me it was a way to try watercolor without being too afraid to put anything down on paper and ruin what I'd just spent good money on. It will buckle after a wash or two but it at least allows you to get a wash or two down without any problems. And you could use it both for sketching and painting. (Didn't mean to hijack your thread Alan but I thought it might be useful to Russ. I do wonder about your Moleskine though. Are you using the sketchpad or the watercolor pad? I've always been disappointed in their 'watercolor' pads and prefer the sketchpads both for sketching and for painting).
A couple of pages of recent sketches...
Black Grouse and Great Grey Shrike...both from around Stockholm since my reurn back from Georgia, which was the most incredible experience..
Not yet got around to sorting out the fieldwork from Batumi, will try get around to that after the blog is fully updated with the photos and diaries, much of the trip is now there already. After thats done, I will tackle the fieldsketches and notes..
That GG Shrike with the tail up is really magnificent. So much in there that's completely unique to that shrike at that moment.