Greg Butler
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Just been looking through your thread, I really love the Bonelli's eagles work. You are so lucky to see them in the wild.
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EliS
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What can I say? There are so many superb scetches and paintings here. Wow! So beautiful, so inspireing! Going through these has reminded me again why I want to draw birds. There's just something in field scetches that...is totally enchanting. Even when looking at other people's scetches I feel as if I'd really seen the bird. You have to get so close to the bird, not physically, but on a more abstract level. You have to put the bird through your head, your arm, your fingertips to get it from the field on the paper.
I've been drawing for who knows how long. Actually many of my first drawings include birds.
I've been getting more serious with drawing birds just lately (though my camera is at the moment on the way, I think I should start leaving it home so that I would HAVE to make scetches to have visual records of what I've seen. Besides, drawing seems to require so much staring at the birds that taking photos always is time away from looking and learning the poses and patterns and colors.).
Oh my, time to go to sleep or otherwise there is no way I can wake up early enough to catch the early bird catching the early worm.
Elina
I've been drawing for who knows how long. Actually many of my first drawings include birds.
I've been getting more serious with drawing birds just lately (though my camera is at the moment on the way, I think I should start leaving it home so that I would HAVE to make scetches to have visual records of what I've seen. Besides, drawing seems to require so much staring at the birds that taking photos always is time away from looking and learning the poses and patterns and colors.).Oh my, time to go to sleep or otherwise there is no way I can wake up early enough to catch the early bird catching the early worm.
Elina
peter mathios
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Wow some fantastic stuff Paschalis!!!!
I've been bogged down lately, but have kept painting. The dailies had to take a back seat to some studio paintings for a while because of an upcoming show and some travels. Hopefully, I'll get back to them at the end of May. Anyway, here are a couple of studio pieces I am working on. The blacktail is 24"x36", the eagle is 14"x18", and the raindrops (a revisited piece) is 20"x30"... The deer is the only one that is completely finished (think) and the eagle is very close.
I've been bogged down lately, but have kept painting. The dailies had to take a back seat to some studio paintings for a while because of an upcoming show and some travels. Hopefully, I'll get back to them at the end of May. Anyway, here are a couple of studio pieces I am working on. The blacktail is 24"x36", the eagle is 14"x18", and the raindrops (a revisited piece) is 20"x30"... The deer is the only one that is completely finished (think) and the eagle is very close.
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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Lovely work asusual Peter.
Josh nice to see your work to.
Josh nice to see your work to.
hunterpaul
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just finished this... hope you like it... Paul
spizaetos
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Some pretty drawings there Josh!
Peter what should I say?Agree of course with the others that this water study is more than
outstanding, but the other two are also of this caliber!
This which always fascinates me is your attention on lighting ,creating atmosphere!
My contribution now, is to show how important field sketching can be, in this case a
Bonelli's eagle in flight Illustration based on a small field sketch already shown here.
Attached both, fieldwork and Illustration.
Paschalis
Peter what should I say?Agree of course with the others that this water study is more than
outstanding, but the other two are also of this caliber!
This which always fascinates me is your attention on lighting ,creating atmosphere!
My contribution now, is to show how important field sketching can be, in this case a
Bonelli's eagle in flight Illustration based on a small field sketch already shown here.
Attached both, fieldwork and Illustration.
Paschalis
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hunterpaul
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thanks for taking a look mike and a second thanks for the nice comment... Paschalis, love the water pic, stunning...HP
ARTHUR BISHOP
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A cracking pic. Paul
Paschalis a great learning curve studying your work.
Paschalis a great learning curve studying your work.
cjoakley
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Been away up north working and only home until the weekend and I'm off again so no time to comment individually - but Wow! what an amazing body of work...
Paschalis - all the Bonelli's sketches are totally fantastic...chicks are stunningly well done!
Peter - brilliant work as always - Josh - beautiful colour and form - Paul amazing detail - truly wonderful...
Oops - think I just commented individually ah well - work this good deserves comment!!
Forgive my lack of posting to all your individual threads - I have to fit a road trip in as well this week but I certainly have time to go take a look at what you're working on - and that is always a thrill...
See you all again in a few weeks time!!
Paschalis - all the Bonelli's sketches are totally fantastic...chicks are stunningly well done!
Peter - brilliant work as always - Josh - beautiful colour and form - Paul amazing detail - truly wonderful...
Oops - think I just commented individually ah well - work this good deserves comment!!
Forgive my lack of posting to all your individual threads - I have to fit a road trip in as well this week but I certainly have time to go take a look at what you're working on - and that is always a thrill...
See you all again in a few weeks time!!
hunterpaul
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thanks guys, I get very nervous posting work on here, as everybody is so *****g amazing... so it means a lot, cheers Paul
birdpotter
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Wow not much posted since I last visited.
Everyone is doing wonderfully.
Well, I want you all to know that I have fallen back in love with painting. I am taking a class right now and we are doing landscapes, which I will try to share at some point when I get around to taking some pictures. I am enjoying myself so much I am actually questioning whether or not I will go back to clay any time soon...Great, one more painter in the mix, right?
Also, I did a couple of self-portraits (turned out horribly) and in each one I have put a bird or two in them. My instructor really liked the added birds. I told her I would put them in whenever I could get away with it.
Anyway, I've been so busy, I miss stopping by the forum. I will try to do better.
Best
Beth
Everyone is doing wonderfully.
Well, I want you all to know that I have fallen back in love with painting. I am taking a class right now and we are doing landscapes, which I will try to share at some point when I get around to taking some pictures. I am enjoying myself so much I am actually questioning whether or not I will go back to clay any time soon...Great, one more painter in the mix, right?
Also, I did a couple of self-portraits (turned out horribly) and in each one I have put a bird or two in them. My instructor really liked the added birds. I told her I would put them in whenever I could get away with it.
Anyway, I've been so busy, I miss stopping by the forum. I will try to do better.
Best
Beth
birdpotter
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Okay this isn't a landscape and maybe you could squint and cock your head at a weird angle and find a bird in it, but this was my first painting of the term. It was actually a color wheel project. I mixed it up a bit. Just wanted to show at least one thing that I have been doing. The only reason I have a photo of this is my instructor took it and emailed it to me. Hopefully, she will do the same of the others.
So there you go.
Oh and I changed the texture of the yellow square and made the whites more cohesive.
So there you go.
Oh and I changed the texture of the yellow square and made the whites more cohesive.
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Woody
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Hi Beth, nice to have you back! Glad you're enjoying the painting, it kinda gets into you and won't go away doesn't it? It would be a crying shame if you neglected the pottery completely though. I reckon one compliments the other very nicely.
This thread has been pretty quiet but all the individual ones are still active and entertaining and generally wonderfully alive and well!
Mike
This thread has been pretty quiet but all the individual ones are still active and entertaining and generally wonderfully alive and well!
Mike
