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Great work again, Alan.
I've spent a bit of time sketching, or should I say trying to sketch, passerines and they certainly make more demands of your hand-eye co-ordination than bigger, slower moving subjects, if these weren't hard enough! Redpolls certainly seem to be one of your 'specialisms', as these fine studies demonstrate.

Russ
 
Alan, I love this GBBG, man! Being utterly ignorant about all things wet, when you say 'indian ink' is this actually watered down black ink or is there a hint of colour there? I can't tell, such is the subtle tones! However it's been done it's great.

Russ
 
Alan, I love this GBBG, man! Being utterly ignorant about all things wet, when you say 'indian ink' is this actually watered down black ink or is there a hint of colour there? I can't tell, such is the subtle tones! However it's been done it's great.

Hi Russ,
There is a little titanium white on the head, flanks and tail. Otherwise watered down black Indian Ink...

News through here of a Siberian Jay. Just an hour away and presumbably escaping incredibly cold conditions of minus late forties up north. A balmy minus 21 here. A real rarity around Stockholm. I'm working today which is painful.
 
you have such a sense of light in that gull piece, amazing!...the vid is not available any longer due to copyright says the message when you click on it.
 
Coludnt resist posting this, taken by a friend on an i phone whilst waiting on the train..
 

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Well, food is where you grab it, I guess! I love the look on the bird's face - 'HEY, can't you give a guy a little room here?! Can't you see I'm eating?'
 
Crested Tits. Came across a bird feeder where these birds are feeding constantly at point blank range, incredible little birds normally up in the trees and impossible to view well...an adult and two first winters present with smaller crests...
 

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