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Let me be the first...[and last]...to say that i cannot see a shrike in your photos..but i do see a crane...[tho i haven't looked too hard for the lanius]...
Those sketches are excellent Nick....absolutely 'buzzing'....:t:
I like.......!
timwootton
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Such fluidity of line - the Dr would have really loved these! I'm getting to the point where I can almost visualise paintings emerging from your drawings, such is the power of the work. Splendido!
timwootton
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I can spot the cock on the fence - ooh er, missus!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
here's a composition scribble from waiting for a student to arrive today. I'm going to do the sky in the blue paper I nicked from work, and the wire fence and brambles shall be scraped out of prewaxed paper. The finished result should have a lovely green and yellow flowery patch surrounded by (and isolated by) nasty fence panels and hoarding.
Now just got to find time to do it.
Now just got to find time to do it.
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solitaryVSong
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That's it: superb sketching capturing the moment. What more could you ask for?! Splendido as Tim says. Or may Molto Splendido!
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Lovely!
That RBS on the fence would make a great "statement" piece. With the hoardings behind it. A competition winner!
Congrats on the broods. Despite.
Here's a digiscoped one from Mor Havrn recently. We have too many broods it seems!
Hope the job stings less after a while!
Frabjous and extraordacious! B
That RBS on the fence would make a great "statement" piece. With the hoardings behind it. A competition winner!
Congrats on the broods. Despite.
Here's a digiscoped one from Mor Havrn recently. We have too many broods it seems!
Hope the job stings less after a while!
Frabjous and extraordacious! B
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Woody
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Great sketch sheets as ever. Never seen a shrike, (sad ain't it!) but I spotted yours on its somewhat unnatural looking perch so I'm confident that if shrikes and I are ever in the same vicinity then I will get one! Colour work from all this fieldwork sounds dreamy.
Mike
Mike
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
looking forward to the weekend now - painting shrikes, a beer or two, perhaps Pagney tomorrow.
Love the shelducks Phil - we get one or two on migration, but I miss seeing them all over the place - I feel as if I never made the most of their abstract shapes in the heat haze of the Dyfi Estuary.
Mike - if you're in the same vicinity as a shrike you'll see it (Red-backed at least - as we all know Captain Excubitor is a bugger!) The one yesterday was just waiting for me to arrive on his fencepost.
Just been told that work will be keeping me on after the holidays till January at least, so employment worries away, now just got to find time to paint! Maybe I should reduce the time I spend hungover.
Love the shelducks Phil - we get one or two on migration, but I miss seeing them all over the place - I feel as if I never made the most of their abstract shapes in the heat haze of the Dyfi Estuary.
Mike - if you're in the same vicinity as a shrike you'll see it (Red-backed at least - as we all know Captain Excubitor is a bugger!) The one yesterday was just waiting for me to arrive on his fencepost.
Just been told that work will be keeping me on after the holidays till January at least, so employment worries away, now just got to find time to paint! Maybe I should reduce the time I spend hungover.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
I try to plan, but I'm sure it'll all go very differently once I've started!
mark richards
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love the shrikes, Nick..one of my favourite birds...but the turtle dove is fantastic..mark
sfrissell
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Great sketches Nick. However, it's never a comforting sight to see a neat bird with construction cranes in the background! It doesn't bode well for bird habitat.
Looking forward to the final works from these sketches--quick before a new building takes over his habitat.
Looking forward to the final works from these sketches--quick before a new building takes over his habitat.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
solitaryVSong
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Uniquely yours Nick. Just full of creativity and surprise. For me I think the yellow adds a pleasant surprise. More than anything else though I love the fact that you've take a true, though not conventionally beautiful scene, and made a striking painting out of it. That's hard to beat!
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Nick,
That is astonishing! The mix of abstract and "actual". The morphing of the two. The "heart-shaped Ringlet". The bold sections of colour. The best abstract sky i've seen.
This is an idiosyncratic delight from you!
I loooove it to distraction! It's very exciting! And very joyful, despite the encroaching Human stuff! Brilliance!
Michael Warren watch out!
That is astonishing! The mix of abstract and "actual". The morphing of the two. The "heart-shaped Ringlet". The bold sections of colour. The best abstract sky i've seen.
This is an idiosyncratic delight from you!
I loooove it to distraction! It's very exciting! And very joyful, despite the encroaching Human stuff! Brilliance!
Michael Warren watch out!
buzzard12
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A very clever, bold painting Nick that really strikes home on several levels. The contrast of yellow and grey and the isolation of the warm yellow in the bottom left corner very effective, the male on the fence outside the warm zone reinforces the sense of encroachment. Heart shaped butterfly, brilliant. This one has your stamp all over it, creativly notable and a winning, provoking painting...
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