phil baber
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phil baber
Clipped Wing
Work In Progress #3: Spoonbill on Cardboard.
Buntings no. Spoonbill yes.
We had 2 very close encounters with Spoonbill last year. A favourite bird of mine. So quite a few reference photos to hand, showing some great poses. Also sketches.
So, about time I made a start on one, as I really have no excuse.
Sleeping posture, but alert. No sign of the famous bill! Paint the bird, but hide its best feature? :cat: Why not?
This was also done on a bit of cardboard box to show Liam what a fine store of materials lie within the recycling.
This is based on a bird at South Lake, Slimbridge, England. Aug 09. Painted today. Not quite finished....B
Goache, WC Pencil on cardboard box.
EDIT: Added a dreadful sketch of the pose in question, and a photo, my partner brilliantly digiscoped, of the wonderful bird in question...think some more pieces may follow. Thanks for your comments!
Buntings no. Spoonbill yes.
We had 2 very close encounters with Spoonbill last year. A favourite bird of mine. So quite a few reference photos to hand, showing some great poses. Also sketches.
So, about time I made a start on one, as I really have no excuse.
Sleeping posture, but alert. No sign of the famous bill! Paint the bird, but hide its best feature? :cat: Why not?
This was also done on a bit of cardboard box to show Liam what a fine store of materials lie within the recycling.
This is based on a bird at South Lake, Slimbridge, England. Aug 09. Painted today. Not quite finished....B
Goache, WC Pencil on cardboard box.
EDIT: Added a dreadful sketch of the pose in question, and a photo, my partner brilliantly digiscoped, of the wonderful bird in question...think some more pieces may follow. Thanks for your comments!
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gropperwinch
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now that's a target to set myself! although if I can ever be that good with cardboard I'll probably join the immortals on Mount Olympus! :eek!:
phenomenal use of lighting and I love the windblown crest!! :t:
phenomenal use of lighting and I love the windblown crest!! :t:
timwootton
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Cracking!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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ditto
solitaryVSong
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EDIT: Added a dreadful sketch of the pose in question, and a photo, my partner brilliantly digiscoped, of the wonderful bird in question...think some more pieces may follow. Thanks for your comments!
Don't look dreadful to me Phil. They have a great sense of life to them.
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Work In Progress #4: Spoonbill Studies...
Thank you all for your kind comments.
Now I know who Carton Moorparks was. And I thought it was User's joke about cardboard boxes! Thanks User for that!
Back to the "Spooners". Been studying the sketches and "Madame Untitled's" photos from last August. Decided to do a "vignettes page".
Here's two studies to begin with...
A classic profile, and "Preening Undertail Coverts."
My, but Spoonbills can "throw some great shapes!"
Hope to do some more at some time. :cat:
Happy Sketching to you all! B
Thank you all for your kind comments.
Now I know who Carton Moorparks was. And I thought it was User's joke about cardboard boxes!
Thanks User for that!Back to the "Spooners". Been studying the sketches and "Madame Untitled's" photos from last August. Decided to do a "vignettes page".
Here's two studies to begin with...
A classic profile, and "Preening Undertail Coverts."
My, but Spoonbills can "throw some great shapes!"
Hope to do some more at some time. :cat:
Happy Sketching to you all! B
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timwootton
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Lovely spoonbill colourwork - those bright blues in the b/ground and in the plumage shadows really illuminate the scene and bring an element of exoticism.
colleenc
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am I crazy, time for bed maybe, but I thought you started a thread of painting birds on the hand to scan; was going to post this hand painting extraordinary
here is the link lots of birds
cant find that thread anywhere in the list, was just here one min ago
here is a link in Japanese, showing a brief flash of how he does it
here is the link lots of birds
cant find that thread anywhere in the list, was just here one min ago
here is a link in Japanese, showing a brief flash of how he does it
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Oh...my...gosh...!!!! 'They' are simply amazing Colleen....:eek!:
Have just seen these and you can consider my 'gob' to be well and truly 'smacked'..!!!
That second pic of 'handbird' is...is...[i can't find the right words to express]...'incredible' does not describe it..[or my reaction to the image]!
...many many thanks for posting.....:t: :cat:
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Thanks friends for your delightful comments!
Colleen, the hands are amazing. Everyone here appears to be amazing!
So glad to be a part of all this, and me being so pedestrian! :eek!:
Trying to wean myself off the "Spooners". A backlog of addressable subjects to play with.
This time last year, it was a male Little Bittern in Somerset, England. Rare bird here. He set up territory in a reed-bed, and called for many days. The RSPB confirmed that he moved to an inacessable part of the reserve, until September.
Madame Untitled, and myself had the great fortune of seeing him in flight, very close, on several occasions. I believe Mme. U referred to the sight of him in flight as "a fairy out of Heaven?" But, that could've been my description. They are remarkably beautiful birds!
The attached are basic splurges to capture the experience.
But he will be featured, dwarfed, in a reedbed painting at some juncture...:cat:
Oh! And he returned in late May, 2010, again! Maybe there's a "love interest" involved? I do hope so! B
Same place, but probably then to the "nicer marsh" where hoardes of people cannot seek him out. :t:
A link to his "song"...
http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/browse.php?query=little+bittern
Hope you all have a fantastic artistic weekend!
Best of regards!
phil
Colleen, the hands are amazing. Everyone here appears to be amazing!
So glad to be a part of all this, and me being so pedestrian! :eek!:
Trying to wean myself off the "Spooners". A backlog of addressable subjects to play with.
This time last year, it was a male Little Bittern in Somerset, England. Rare bird here. He set up territory in a reed-bed, and called for many days. The RSPB confirmed that he moved to an inacessable part of the reserve, until September.
Madame Untitled, and myself had the great fortune of seeing him in flight, very close, on several occasions. I believe Mme. U referred to the sight of him in flight as "a fairy out of Heaven?" But, that could've been my description. They are remarkably beautiful birds!
The attached are basic splurges to capture the experience.
But he will be featured, dwarfed, in a reedbed painting at some juncture...:cat:
Oh! And he returned in late May, 2010, again! Maybe there's a "love interest" involved? I do hope so! B
Same place, but probably then to the "nicer marsh" where hoardes of people cannot seek him out. :t:
A link to his "song"...
http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/browse.php?query=little+bittern
Hope you all have a fantastic artistic weekend!
Best of regards!
phil
