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Thank's, Ulrike. I am trying my best to keep it simple, and always find it more easy when working outside. When the motive flies away - your finished!
Some are made in a sketchbook from Saunders Waterford, but the two last ones on Arches (the eiders on hot pressed and the gull on cold pressed).
 
A different kind of field sketching this time, it probably doesn't even qualify? I did some ringing this weekend, and took the opportunity to draw some portraits while holding the birds. I didn't want to hold the birds for long, so I made quick sketches, and added some color after releasing them. The birds look different up close, many of the markings kind of disappear, and the shape of the bird is also usually different from when you see it in the field. I found it hard to give them their right facial expressions, but it was an interesting session. The Willow Warbler looks wrong to me, and the bill of the Garden Warbler is probably a bit too heavy. The Tree Pipit is one of around 30 that I caught, and the variation was tremendous, both in markings and colors. It would have been fun to try and draw them all, but I felt that it was enough to put one of them through the ordeal...
 

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You're so right about the way a bird looks in the hand, Oivind. Well-accepted field marks seem to dissipate and, perhaps, we are left looking at pure detail, instead of the overall impression a bird gives when moving naturally in the field (surely a lesson for all artists who may wish to portray birds, no?). The only birds I've ever held which still looked 'as they should' are waxwings and long-tailed tits.
Having said that - these are very beautiful studies. Shame you couldn't do the 30 tree pipits ;)
 
Beautiful, and I'm in total agreement with Tim on the detail versus overall impression thing. Very useful exercise though and a real privilege to be in such close contact with the living birds.

Mike
 
I agree with both of you. It is true that waxwings and long-tailed tits manage to look like themselves in the hand - I guess you might find the wryneck on the other end of the scale?
 
So, tomorrow I'm going for the Ural Owl at Borrevannet south of Oslo. It was seen today, so my chances ar fairly good. I had to do some youtube sketching tonight, just to be prepared. Lets hope I didn't jinx it. I admit,, I'm a bit exited ;)
 

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with sketches this good from video, who needs to go out! no seriously - hope you get it, fingers crossed for you, just spare a thought for me when I'm counting more coots in the rain before work.
 
Stunning sketches all of them Qivind! Wish you good luck with the owls
and I`m sure you gonna do your best!
Can`t wait to see the results..

Paschalis
 
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