Jomo's Sketchbook (3 Viewers)

jomo

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• Jul 20, 2008

• #141

It's finished!

Good lord, remember this? It's been sitting on the easel since last summer, staring at me with accusations of nearly-but-not-quite-finished-ness (sometimes I'd wake up in the night and swear I'd see it standing over me, glowering in the dark).

I decided I wasn't going to let an entire year go by without finishing it, so I sat down this weekend and got it done. Haven't the foggiest if I even like it anymore, but it'll go into the portfolio for now. I'll decide later if I can overlook all of the glaring technical inconsistencies that tend to creep into a work that spans so many months.

 

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Andrew H

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• Jul 20, 2008

• #142

:clap:
Well It gets my vote..............

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jul 20, 2008

• #143

I bloody well love it! Gorgeous!

 

desgreene

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• Jul 21, 2008

• #144

Fabulous. I really look forward to the day when I can match your level of glaring technical inconsistency!

 

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ste

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• Jul 21, 2008

• #145

I rememember you posting the early stages of this painting last summer. Great to see the finished version. Its an excellent result.
Steve

 

EliS

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• Jul 26, 2008

• #146

What a beautiful use of watercolor!!!

Elina

 

timwootton

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• Jul 27, 2008

• #147

desgreene said:

Fabulous. I really look forward to the day when I can match your level of glaring technical inconsistency!

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Join the queue, Des!

 

Woody

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• Jul 29, 2008

• #148

It's beautiful. It's a delicate and deft touch you have and you've created a light and airy piece with fantastic atmosphere. Please don't make us wait another six months for the next one!

Mike

 

jomo

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• Jul 31, 2008

• #149

Woody said:

Please don't make us wait another six months for the next one!

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Well, for once I can comply! I'd like to do a more involved piece of that lovely Pelee Red-headed I hung out with at the Tip, but for now just a quickie. I've also got the itch to do another sparrow piece, in some thick, tangly sparrow-suitable habitat (just playing with ideas at the mo, though). Off to the cottage for four days tomorrow, dockside is a good place for paints.

 

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nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jul 31, 2008

• #150

What a fantastic woodpecker - I adored the sketch and now I adore the painting. These are solid 3D branches with a solid 3D bird - you've captured the forms superbly. Stunningly beautiful too!

 

EliS

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• Jul 31, 2008

• #151

Love the woodie, it looks so real! And that detail of the wing and tail being just visible from behind the branch, charming. Waiting forward to seeing what'll come out of the sparrowy, I like the color scheme.

Elina

 

timwootton

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• Jul 31, 2008

• #152

I think this sparrow sketch is fabulous - great design and use of muted harmoniuos colours - topper!

 

ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Jul 31, 2008

• #153

This is lovely work Jomo

 

jomo

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• Aug 17, 2008

• #154

Quiet on the forum lately! Ah well, here's what I've been up to.

I went down to Hamilton Harbour this afternoon for a look at a lifer White Pelican (too distant to sketch, unfortunately), and spent some time at the Caspian Tern colony. Also, a page of a Song Sparrow -- I'd intended to get some reference sketches of Swamp Sparrows for the painting I'm working on, but as the only individual I could rustle up spent the entire five minutes behind a clump of leaves with only his butt sticking out, I had to settle for the 'singer' who had been following me around the whole time, rolling his eyes and yelling, 'Fer crissake, forget him, I'm right here!"

 

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jomo

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• Aug 17, 2008

• #155

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Andrew H

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• Aug 17, 2008

• #156

Love the sketches Jomo, wish i could sketch from 'live'..........

 

timwootton

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• Aug 17, 2008

• #157

Terns are just gorgeous - love the scalloping on the youngster and the breeze-affected plumage. Just beautiful. Also glad you plumped for the singer - wise decision and another superb sheet of informative, three-dimensional drawings.
Top drawer, as usual.

 

EliS

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• Aug 17, 2008

• #158

So. Wonderful.

Elina

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Aug 26, 2008

• #159

excellent, pure class, you just seem to get higher and higher!

 

jomo

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• Sep 4, 2008

• #160

Finally got some time to work on this, been busy the past few weeks. (Maid of honour at a friend's wedding, which automatically volunteered me for various preparation duties, not to mention bachelorette planning and, ack, speech writing!) Now that it's all out of the way, back to my Melospiza, though things have changed quite a bit from the original sketch. Also, a page of an Ovenbird I stirred up while out hiking on the weekend. The warblers are on the move!

 

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