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Seemingly the bird of the moment.. (1 Viewer)
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birdboybowley
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Ha, cheers Nick....I dunno really, I have the finished painting in my mind's eye and just keep striving to get it resembling that image - never does though - and f me, sometimes I really could just rip the damn thing off the board and stamp on it!! I guess our approaches are from literally the opposite ends of the spectrum - I could ask you how can you not put all the finicky details I love doing into your work?!? I just can't do fast 'n' loose, damned illustration work has sucked the ability from me! 
timwootton
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Amazing how this last day's work has brought everything together - fantastic piece. Just one thing - weren't submission days Saturday & Sunday??? I hope I'm wrong if you're taking this up there tomorrow. . . .
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timwootton
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Sorry mate - just been to check. The days are Sunday and MONDAY - phew! Get it framed and up there toot sweet.
birdboybowley
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Feck - don't do that to me mate!!!! The amount of sleep I've had lately I could've gotten it wrong by a month, let alone a day
An amazing touch of bird, atmosphere and art all rolled into one, a good'un.
timwootton
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Sorry again, Ads - with mates like me, who needs enemas, eh?Feck - don't do that to me mate!!!! The amount of sleep I've had lately I could've gotten it wrong by a month, let alone a day
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birdboybowley
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Indeed Tim!
Well, got it finished and in on time....Checked out the BP Portrait Artist of the Year exhibition too and, as always, some fab work in there. Finally got to sleep 9pm Monday night and woke up 3pm the following day - let's hope it was bloody worth it! So, fannied around with it, touching up bits here and there and at almost the last moment added another starling in the bottom left as the others seemed too centralised...even though it meant having equal numbers of starlings and hornbills, but hey, i think it balances it quite nicely.
And some detail shots...I think the last one makes a nice painting on its own actually....
Well, got it finished and in on time....Checked out the BP Portrait Artist of the Year exhibition too and, as always, some fab work in there. Finally got to sleep 9pm Monday night and woke up 3pm the following day - let's hope it was bloody worth it! So, fannied around with it, touching up bits here and there and at almost the last moment added another starling in the bottom left as the others seemed too centralised...even though it meant having equal numbers of starlings and hornbills, but hey, i think it balances it quite nicely.
And some detail shots...I think the last one makes a nice painting on its own actually....
solitaryVSong
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Yes. This turned out very well. That added touch of blue in the front really sets it off colorwise. And an incredibly unusual subject as well.
As the comments between you and Nick, either here or on Nick's thread, mention they are two very different ways of working. I can't imagine working as you do. But I sure can appreciate the end results.
birdboybowley
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User - fantastically atmospheric piccy...could be anything behind that smoke...could be hiding a small smouldering fire or just as easily be the mist in a valley concealing a whole mountainside!
Ken - cheers for that...I'm just a traditionalist at heart
Paschalis - praise indeed coming from you
Ken - cheers for that...I'm just a traditionalist at heart
Paschalis - praise indeed coming from you
timwootton
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Superb result - complex, engaging and entertaining image with a fascinating narrative - what more could one wish for!
Ok - put us out of our misery - did it get in?? - SWLA website has all accepted work listed there now.
Ok - put us out of our misery - did it get in?? - SWLA website has all accepted work listed there now.
birdboybowley
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Nah, listing's tomorrow apparently! Stop doing this to me!! :-O
timwootton
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Just keeping you on your toes, mate :-O
Sorry - a bit premature there (not for the first time :smoke
birdboybowley
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It did, number 433 :t:
Strandman
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congratulations- it's been a privilege watching this one take shape
