Thanks for your kind comments!
I've decided, from now on, to offer all artworks I do to the individual website that focuses on the "patch" on which I sketched the birds. For free of course!
Normally all of my stuff would've collected dust in my many records. (Until I began
this thread that is.)
I think it only fair to offer up the stuff, as a kind of
thankyou, and by way of a "plug" for the habitat/area involved. And the people who commit themselves to promoting it through their tireless coverage, and expenditure on web-site upkeep.
From which we all ultimately benefit...
Also as a gesture towards encouraging other artists to have a go at submitting their record sketches.
Hell! If I can do it, why can't they?
When I began birding in the 70s, and into the 90s, artistic representation of bird records were to the fore. Now it seems that photography has replaced this delightful form of expression of an individual's "take" on an experience. :-C
I would really like to see more and more artwork on birding sites, to balance out the "whitewash" of photos.
And more artwork in annual bird reports.:cat:
Rant over.
Here are links to the sites where this artwork has been donated. And if you go to the first, you can get a massive download of the Laps!
(3 wonderful web-sites from my area. Paul Bowerman - Severnside Birds. Martyn Hayes - The Birds of South Gloucestershire (my birthplace.) Jason Williams - Clevedon & Portishead Birds.)
As it is
my thread, thought you'd all like to learn more about where I bird and sketch, and crawl through cowpats? :-O
http://www.clevedon-portisheadbirds.com/latestnews1a.htm
http://www.thebirdsofsouthgloucestershire.co.uk/Recent News.htm
http://www.severnsidebirds.co.uk/page4.html
PS GREAT PHOTOS TOO!
PPS We watched Red Deer rutting today. But were distracted by a female Common Kestrel catching, dispatching and portioning a Short-Tailed Field Vole. Here's the last of it going down. Yum! :eat:
