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phil baber
Clipped Wing
Gonna be another beauty. I can feel it!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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solitaryVSong
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Your time off has obviously left you refreshed. It's easy to tell this will be another beauty!
phil baber
Clipped Wing
I'm a bit scared Arthur.
You're obviously on course!
Love it!
You're obviously on course!
Love it!
JTMB
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Hi Arthur,
I just went through your whole thread, and your work is simply excellent! First-rate on both the sketches and the finished pieces. I particularly love the young House Martins! Yet another artist on this site who sets the bar very high for us newer and aspiring folks, wow.
I just went through your whole thread, and your work is simply excellent! First-rate on both the sketches and the finished pieces. I particularly love the young House Martins! Yet another artist on this site who sets the bar very high for us newer and aspiring folks, wow.
ARTHUR BISHOP
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phil baber
Clipped Wing
Already she's looking like a DANGEROUS PROPOSITION!
Very accurate rendering of a special bird!
And a special capture of yours!
Very accurate rendering of a special bird!
And a special capture of yours!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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timwootton
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So glad to see that foot's still doing its thing! Smart work Arthur - cobwebs well and truly blown away.
Jackie Garner
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Beautifully angled eyes - so hard to do that without first rate observation. Love the way the branches and foliage mimic the shape of the breast markings, and love that well observed foot too. Can I be critical about one minor point? The top of the leg looks just a fraction too thin in the painting compared to your original sketch. Hope I'm not causing offence - feel free to critique my work.
ARTHUR BISHOP
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No way Jackie. I see what you mean and I've touched r/hand top of leg to give it more strenght .will take photo tomorrow in daylight.
solitaryVSong
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You are becoming a master of pattern Arthur. The branches just seem to make the entire painting sway, and yet they fit in perfectly with the bird. It's all of a piece, just like so much of your work.
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Sprawk eyes are ill-balanced. Just as in life! How they do that I do not know. But you have captured it...
ARTHUR BISHOP
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Ta All.
Phil i think its the Bifocal nature of the bird having near and far distancewith a piercing stare.
This was taken last year of her sitting on one of the feeders.she's even used me as cover coming in just over the shoulderto snatch one off the feeders.Isee more of the male when they have young.
I think it was Ed who remarked about a cross eyed Sprawk.
Phil i think its the Bifocal nature of the bird having near and far distancewith a piercing stare.
This was taken last year of her sitting on one of the feeders.she's even used me as cover coming in just over the shoulderto snatch one off the feeders.Isee more of the male when they have young.
I think it was Ed who remarked about a cross eyed Sprawk.
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phil baber
Clipped Wing
Perfect!
Cutting edge of Ornithology!
They are definitely "cross-eyed."
Very odd. But evolutionarily very clever!
Depth of field, offset eyes like owls' ears, vision pin-pointing in 3D, etc?
Good work Arthur! I have learnt from your personal superb observational art!
Cutting edge of Ornithology!
They are definitely "cross-eyed."
Very odd. But evolutionarily very clever!
Depth of field, offset eyes like owls' ears, vision pin-pointing in 3D, etc?
Good work Arthur! I have learnt from your personal superb observational art!
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