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Sketches from Andrew Ellis (1 Viewer)
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Andrew Ellis
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Hi Mike it's on MDF primed and is 24 x 36cm. I'm wondering whether to leave it be or do a whole lot more to it? Thinking maybe another curlew next to it and one feeding in background or maybe I should leave it be.
'Bakers talent for painting with words'......quite magnificent...!
ps...[and if i can be cheeky for one second]
..i attach a photo of my copy with a marvelous illustration on the front cover!Nice bit of black n white work eh...?
All the best!
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nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
leave this one as it be, anything more added to it would be fiddling now - by all means do another one with more birds!
Andrew Ellis
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'Bakers talent for painting with words'......quite magnificent...!
ps...[and if i can be cheeky for one second]
Nice bit of black n white work eh...?
All the best!
I have the same copy and it is a lovely piece of work on the cover! I take it you are the artist behind it's creation.
solitaryVSong
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Is that true username? Your post above was typically cryptic
It is indeed a lovely piece!
gropperwinch
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more mystery and secrecy (I almost typed secretion instead just there
) from the mysterious and secretive username?? If you have been secretly being a phenomneal bird artist all these years and never told us I will...Not be shocked at all, knowing you!
You make me laugh Andrew....[i just did...honest]!....as if i'm the artist behind that cover..[chuckle]!
ps...you did peak my interest tho and so i just had a look on the back of the dust jacket....and guess what?...that illustration is done from a photograph:eek!:
Now i never knew that!...[well why would i]?...i usually only read the inside of books.....
ps...out of interest...the photographer of 'that' peregrine was a chappy called Baumann...and the design, from said photo, was accomplished by a Brian Price-Thomas...and a fine piece of work it is too!
pss....[all of which you will find out when you next reach for your copy]...!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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the light on that 15min pic. is just superb
Andrew Ellis
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Andrew Ellis
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gropperwinch
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I already commented on it not too long ago on another thread but this is so good it deserves as much attention as it can possibly get! The skecthes are magnificent too, I often try to sketch my local swifts, I can do all the classic poses but it's those weir twisting in mid-air, wing-fluttery ones I find so difficult, and which you have just done with absolute ease!! Add that to the best sense of perspective in a painting I've yet seen on here and it is quite simply a brilliant collection!
timwootton
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Oh Andy - cut it out now, please!!?? Just toooooo good, man! Curlew is bristling with life (leave it, leave it) and the swifts are fecking gorgeous - drawings and colourwrk.
phil baber
Clipped Wing
LOve it all!
But those Swift sketches?
Man Alive!
That has made my day Andrew!
I think you must know by now that you are PRETTY SPECIAL!
Long may you continue to be so!
But those Swift sketches?
Man Alive!
That has made my day Andrew!
I think you must know by now that you are PRETTY SPECIAL!
Long may you continue to be so!
Strandman
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Andrew Ellis
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I agree its the old version for me.
Andrew Ellis
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:-O:-O Some of my other mates have called me SPECIAL ... Although maybe not in the same way Phil !!
