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On The Hoof - Fieldwork From Orkney (1 Viewer)

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There's more?! Can't wait! Looks like you had a drop of rain, some of those pages have the wrinkles of authenticity! All genius but the flight studies are simply outstanding.

I hope this little lot will be studio fodder over the coming weeks?

Mike
 
Wow, what a great series here! Always nice to see the puffins, but I particularly like the color studies of the razorbills. It was also nice to see some studies of the place to put the birds in a bit of context as well. My favorite, though, has to be the baby shag with the monstrous feet! Quite a treat here!
 
Hi Tim,

do you really sit there between the birds and draw them?

They look so real, all of them. My favourite is the puffin.

I've heard those sweet chaps are eaten somewhere up in the north. O:-(

Ulrike
 
MAN…… what a selection of fine sketches. I also like the colour studies of the razorbills and as for the ID 333438 I would just frame it and hang it on the wall. I often find many of these field studies better than final studio paintings.
This has nothing to do with birds but when I was in Orkney recently I was surprised to see so many of these abandoned houses/cottages and here yet another one on Swona. Are they just left there for many years ?

Torben
 
Yeah Tim, great work as usual mate - love your colour sketches although aren't you dying to splash some colour on that puffin's bill too??.....I know I would be!! Like the little Shag too, nice to draw birds at unusual stages intheir lives as it makes us study them harder as their bits aren't always where we'd expect them to be
 
You are such a prolific artist Tim!
While there's not just quantity but most of all quality at its best!
I love the baby Shag? in particular!!

Paschalis
 
You are such a prolific artist Tim!
While there's not just quantity but most of all quality at its best!
Paschalis

Just what I was thinking. Did you have time to eat or sleep while you were there:?

And it was nice to be reminded of how much I enjoy your landscapes/seascapes. I particularly enjoyed that very first watercolor. As John says it sets the scene and makes everything else more enjoyable.
 
I just got back on to this thread to see what my comment was after gaping in awe once more - and guess what, I just gaped and left silently. I really have run out of words.
 
Cor! What fine examples of a master at work. Simply superb draughtmanship as usual. I love the capture of light on the coloured razorbills - quite wonderful. Never sketched puffins but that bill, especially face on or in 3/4 looks a bxxxxr to get right, but these are well and truly nailed.
I think, as you told me, you may need to ever so slightly 're-draw' the face on shag and fulmar - seems your human, hee, hee.

I love it all

Russ
 
Ouch!
A bumper outporing of brilliance! Outstanding and inspiring on all levels. And such prolificity!
Astonishing stuff Tim!
 
Unforgiveable really - it's taken me until July to make the trek to Yesnaby to see my skuas. But yesterday I finally nipped out the gallery and drove the few miles to the coastal moorland breding site - breeding site being an optomistic term most recent years and this one it's pure fiction. Happening upon a bonxie siting plum in the middle of the 'colony' was an inauspicious beginning - the fact that he was unmolested only added to the concern. Another great skua came through, but this time was half-heartedly scolded by a pale phase arctic - life, at least. Eventually I found a couple of birds keeping fairly close together and faithful to a territory (although it was obvious when both birds left the area that they were defending no progeny. I did manage a couple of drawings and, when they left, I was about to pack up and follow them when a chacking-whistle drifted into my consciousness - wheatear alarm. Scanning the heather I saw a very bedraggled cock bird flitting around near a juvenile. I then saw another youngster, not more than 20 feet from where I had been sitting for the past half-hour. It must have been there all along and was totally rooted to the spot (frozen with anxiety, perhaps). It stayed almost motionless for the best part of 25 minutes longer while I drew it twice and then commited to a colour study. I've never known this behaviour in a fully fledged wheatear chick.
A little later I found a couple of dark-phase skuas and made a few studies.
On my return home I had an hour in the bird-hide and was delighted to have a young snipe drop in and spend an hour around the margins of the pond (a first for the 'nature reserve) - food for some work, here - methinks.
 

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All of them are brilliant but the coloured ones -Wheatear and skua-
are my favorites!They are truly bathing in light!!

Paschalis
 
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