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Mike's conservatory (1 Viewer)
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solitaryVSong
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Lot to catch up on here but I particularly like the wagtail sketch, and how it resolved itself into a painting.
timwootton
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Oh yes - terrific piece, Mike - Andy's spot-on; won't be hanging around for very long, methinks.
Strandman
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I thought what great water that is on the grebe pic- so much more favourable comparisons with C Rose than you allow
but also I noticed some simple looser white brush strokes in the shaded area under the grebes which added to the action and take us more than a bit beyond Rose-ness
Woody
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Very kind of you to say so Ed.
Talking of looseness, here's a quick sunrise over flooded fields painted in an hour or so whilst wife and daughter watched BGT. It amazes me, the colours that come with sunrise sometimes. It makes getting out of bed at silly o'clock seem worthwhile.
Mike
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birdboybowley
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Just gotta echo the others on the grebe piece Mike - a truly lovely painting. I keep putting off doing water.....but the kingfisher pic's reared its head again so might not be able to hold off much longer - hopefully it'll look like yours!!
solitaryVSong
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I'd hoped to get out early and see something such as this, or at least more bird activity, on our recent vacation. But I can never convince my wife that we should get up earlier not later on vacation!
A great sense of the stillness of early morning in this Mike.
A great sense of the stillness of early morning in this Mike.
RussB
Going for Gold
I, too, had a double take when I looked at this. This is top drawer work which has me looking forward to tackling this wonderful display sometime soon.
I love the yellow wag sketch - it's almost Busby-esque in it's simplicity.
Russ
Woody
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I had a day at Stodmarsh today, great weather, (although a bit windy), sun in a cloudless sky. I wanted to come home with a sketchbook stuffed with stuff, but that didn't happen. Highlight of the day for me were the hobbies, hawking insects high up. There were at least seven birds swerving around the sky at once, absolute joy to watch. Consequently they were the only sketching that got done.
I'm off to catch up with the other threads.
Mike
I'm off to catch up with the other threads.
Mike
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timwootton
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indeed - and these are.
solitaryVSong
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I'm pretty sure I've said I think you have a great way of capturing birds in flight before. If not I'll say it again!
Oddly I was rereading Bruce Pearson's 'An Artist on Migration' yesterday and I think he said that at the time there were only 300 breeding pair of hobbies in Britain. Does that sound right? Hobbies seem to be the favorites of a number of people and I wondered if their scarcity adds to that, assuming of course that I didn't just misread that section!
