phil baber
Clipped Wing
That's one complicated bit of wood, good job
just running my painters eye over it I noticed that the bird's tail a bit of wood above that and the next, line up in dark and light bands sort of strong, and it makes a dark almost even band above the bird, maybe some variation there in value and direction could be considered....but that's just so the beautiful bird, is showing more.
You're right. It's unfinished. :eek!: But I usually let a painting stew for some days when I think I,ve finished! Thanks Colleen for that, it had been bothering me!
The problem here was two-fold: whether to include everything in that stump, even if it interfered with the eventual outcome?
How to make the Wheatear seem inconsequential to the outcome, and not the main focus of the picture.
Honesty sometimes is not the best policy.
I will look at it over time and eventually see what needs to be done. Also, even thought the Wheatear IS "off-centre", it's still a little too close to centre for my liking!
Thanks Tim and Nick for comments also!
To take the heat off this. Here's some more from past "screevings..." (Great) Bitterns. A bird I found hard to draw, until I began to see more of them, and understand how they are put together. The bird in the line-drawing has an "enlarged culmen!" But it was drawn in 92! The "painting" was my attempt to recollect a Bittern on a frozen January day in 2009. I think I might've had a few the night I did this! B