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oivind egeland

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It's been a while since I visited these pages, and a while since I had time for any art work. I'm posting this new thread as an attempt to force myself back into the field! I visited an island south of Oslo this weekend, and was able to sit down with Eiders and a singing Lesser Whitethroat. The next few weeks will probably give me more time for sketching.
 

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Fantastic work, what I'd call 'sophisticated simplicity".

I hope you do get more time in the field because it's always a pleasure to see work of this standard.

Mike
 
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Fantastic work, what I'd call 'sophisticated simplicity".

I hope you do get more time in the field because it's always a pleasure to see work of this standard.

Mike


Sophisticated simplicity says it well, particularly in that eider. As I said in Ed's thread I see a simliarity in these and Ed's recent grebe. Sophisticated and spontaneous simplicity.
 
I don't see enough lesser whitethroats - and see even less of them in such wonderful sketches, one of my absolute favourite birds, subtle and shapely.
 
I don't see enough lesser whitethroats - and see even less of them in such wonderful sketches, one of my absolute favourite birds, subtle and shapely.

Looking forward to future posts already, what a great start, Lesser Throat is fantastic. The countryside here is chocker with these right now here...
 
Two great examples of fieldwork here, Oivind! I love the perfrect pose of the Lesser'throat and the volume of the eider just looks like something out of Lars' sketchbook. Love it!

Russ
 
Thank you all for encouraging comments! I've been able to do a bit of field work lately, and I'm posting some examples here. The Red-crested Pochard has been flying around between lakes and the ocean at Jæren (just south of Stavanger), and was my first in Norway. I was able to draw it from the terrace at my friends house - he has bought a house smack in the middle of probably the most bird-rich place in the entire country (He put up a few nets in the garden last autumn, and caught two Paddyfield Warblers, one Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler and one Blyth's Reed Warbler. Among other things....)
All of the sketches are from the same area, and all the work was done outside.
 

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A few more from the past weeks. The Eiders are part of a larger sketch, it was drawn in the field, but I added colours later. The Great Black-backed gull is a field sketch, from Revtangen in the south-west - probably the most legendary birding spot in the country.
 

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Excellent Fieldwork!..I am a little envious ,because I havent been able to go out for a while,but very happy to see that You are managing to be working in the field,and with such excellent results..
 
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