buzzard12
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Drat....lugged my scope and tripod into the big bad City this morning for a workaday sketching opportunity and it turned out May was over. These done standing on-the-spot over lunch with no fiddling about to tidy them up afterwards, tho' notes show where I would be tempted to do so.
But for a Bittern sketch back in Feb, must be the first true field sketches I have attempted for years and years and years- so in all seriousness, PWG's sentiments echoed and thanks to all for creating and maintaining the momentum and sense of sketching community on here.
Ed, talk about nice, tremendous sketches of a fine bird. The coiled line on the Peregrines breast seems to hold a great sense of pent up energy and adds a great sense of form. A fitting end to great month of sketches displayed on this thread.
Woody, the Little Owl studies are superb and display tremendous
draftsmanship on your part, not to take away from the remainder which are superb.
Tim, as always your work is a breath of fresh air, have to say the head on Red Throat has a special something only a field sketch can capture which is just beyond anything I can put down in words. Little Terns are simply very well fab!
As a final note its been a pleasure to view all the sketches posted here. As regards the end of the thread I would say May is only one month in the year and I see no reason to stop posting, so keep em coming everybody! Perhaps some of you who are just viewing this thread have been encouraged to start putting a few lines down in the field and realized their value... Its not really about the finished product or its technical excellence, its about being there and trying to capture the moment. The merest lines draw many observations into the sharpest of memories...
Thanks to all for posting...-
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