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colleenc

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• Jan 4, 2010

• #2,981

I guess I'll stop complaining, I thought it was really cold here since I had to put on a wool shirt....Love it when you post these kind of sketches, it's like a drawing class for me to see how you go after your subject, and how it develops as you go...thanks for the post

 

Woody

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• Jan 5, 2010

• #2,982

I've been quiet lately having had the creativity knocked out of me by the move to Paddington and shifting all my son's stuff over to his new flat as he finally flies the nest for good. Looking at these fab sheets may very well be just what I need to get me moving again, thanks Tim.

Mike

 

timwootton

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• Jan 5, 2010

• #2,983

I don't need to reiterate what the weather's like - our daytime teperature of approx -6 is probably as mild as anywhere in the whole of Britain. Thought I'd be a tad braver today (my goldeneyes didn't reappear in the 'garden') so I took to the car for a brief jaunt up the slidey roads to Loch of Stenness. A pair of gadwall didn't hang about, but the flighty geese were a squeak more settled today (surely the shooting ban hasn't had such an effect so immediately )and it was nice to get the big scope out for a change. The seal pups were surrounded by solid ice, all bar the 50 metre pool of brackish open water surrounding the tiny skerries on which they were settled.

 

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RussB

Going for Gold

• Jan 5, 2010

• #2,984

Superb sketches Tim. I know you shouldn't compare your own work with others, but I'd fill up 3 A4 sketch pads before I could get life like this in 'em. Were the goldeneye and geese done in 'one sitting' or is the result of a few hours watching and drawing? Inspiring stuff indeed. I can't wait for't weekend!

Cheers

Russ

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jan 5, 2010

• #2,985

I just enjoyed the goldeneye and eiders, had nothing to say about them, just really enjoyed them, the top lot of the last geese page are some of the finest lines I've ever seen. -6 sounds nice and toasty! Didn't bother checking how cold it was here, but when you can slide across a marsh without getting your feet wet, you know it's cold.

 

Woody

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,986

The square ars*d geese are spot on and the simplicity of that last seal is astounding, so much expressed with so little it's the perfect scribble.

Got down to -8 the other day...I stayed in the car!

Mike

 

Strandman

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,987

timwootton said:

my little old kowa (straight eyepiece, too)

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darn- straight eyepiece was my excuse for not being able to sketch like this

great series of Goldeneye

 

buzzard12

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,988

Great bevy of sketches Tim, Goldeneyes are full of observations. Geese are not a little special, wonderfully drawn.
Nice to hear your in tropical climes Tim. Down to a scary -22 degrees here, the coldest I've ever known here. Sketching just not possible, which is a shame as plenty of goodies around. Black Throated Thrush, Arctic Redpoll and lots of lovely Twite, at least the camera works ok!

 

timwootton

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,989

Apodemus said:

I see the beautiful fox in there that you posted on WetCanvas. What's wrong with the picture-buying public on Orkney?? Why is that still there?

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Foxes aren't really 'Orkney', to be honest Mike - and by the way . . .
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

 

solitaryVSong

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,990

These should have been posted about a week or so ago when Colleen was talking about field sketches. What perfect examples! They all are as elegant as could be but at the same time seem to catch the particulars of certain birds at exact moments. They are real beauties.

And in freezing weather no less! That bad weather surely must be having some good effects judging by the recent work of you and Nick!

 

timwootton

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,991

Popped out to try and find an accessible goose flock this afternoon to no avail. Giving the day up as a non-starter (drawing wise) and harnessing mad-dog up when I spotted one of the goldeneye drakes from the window. Although nearly dark and pestered by mad-dog, just had to take the last of the usable light making a few more studies of this smart little duck.

Russ- regarding the previously posted sheets - the goldeneyes were all done in the same session, the geese and seals a day or two after. I'm still feeling very rusty with my drawings, but time and work should grease that off a tad.

 

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nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,992

if you're feeling rusty then you could do yourself a bigger favour and not draw goldeneye, I find even when I draw them right (and check) they never look right! Superb studies again, gorgeous birds that I don't see enough of here, only the odd one or two, and then rarely smart males like that.

 

timwootton

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• Jan 6, 2010

• #2,993

Dead right Nick - they're curious little things; the head changes shape quite often and those sub-orbital patches both help and then hinder the description of the headshape. Very smart things though and I shall persist until they look like goldeneye.

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jan 7, 2010

• #2,994

particularly like the bulging neck on the snorkelling bird - the sort of thing that you can only draw if you've seen it!

 

solitaryVSong

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• Jan 7, 2010

• #2,995

timwootton said:

and I shall persist until they look like goldeneye.

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Exactly as we would expect! We'll all be waiting for the results.

 

ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Jan 9, 2010

• #2,996

lovely sketches Tim

 

peter mathios

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• Jan 11, 2010

• #2,997

Inspiring waterfowl studies!!! It sounds like you really enjoyed drawing them especially with a roaring fire. Very nice!

 

timwootton

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• Jan 14, 2010

• #2,998

Well, I can only put it off for so long!
Having returned from visiting Ma in hospital (again) last weekend, I’ve been finding anything to do except real work. The trip itself was a bit of a pain, missing my connecting flight at Glasgow on Thursday (remember Thursday – ‘don’t travel unless absolutely necessary’ was the police advice) meant taking another flight (and an additional £100) only to be informed that flight was delayed by 4 hours. Eventually arrived in Yorkshire at 1am, Friday.
I did have an interesting Birder Tick though in Glasgow Airport. Fresh from filming Meercats around the savannahs of Cumbernauld and whispering oh-so sweetly about the lionesses of East Kilbride, the Big Cat Diarist himself, Lord King of Simonshire was indulging himself in a massage at the airport Relaxation Lounge. How on earth anything can be described as relaxing, when the massage is being performed in full view of one’s fellow travellers is so beyond me. Ah well – I suppose it may have killed 10 minutes or so.

A couple of trips out with the sketchbook have started to form an idea or two for a painting – greylags in a snowscape. Not a new idea, but one from real encounters.

Here’s an oil sketch for one of the characters I hope to include – only two colours (Prussian blue and burnt sienna) plus white over a peachy-coloured ground.

 

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ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Jan 14, 2010

• #2,999

looking forward to this Tim

 

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username

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• Jan 14, 2010

• #3,000

Regards the recent weather conditions Tim...i ventured out into the field today..[and these photo's illustrate how i feel about all this snow that's about]....

ps...please forgive my interruption and daftness...this has been brought on by the lack of birds and inclement weather...

 

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