timwootton
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Outstanding illustrations - and Art!
I was going to type a lot more, but 'magnifico!' just about sums it up.
I was going to type a lot more, but 'magnifico!' just about sums it up.
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peter mathios
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These black and whites are awesome! I am especially awestruck by the two songbird paintings. FANTASTIC!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
From the sketchbook: there's been a Sibe Chiffchaff in the car park of the Franche-Comté Natural History Group (twitching it was how I ended up doing the above illustrations), Have spent hours now looking for it, with no luck, here's a sketch of the odd, pale but quite greeny yellow chiffy that I got. Neither nowt nor summat this one!
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nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
and to finish for the moment, here are two paintings from last night, goosanders and coal tits. Have a long list of stuff to do: a wallcreeper, another wallcreeper, displaying goosanders, a firecrest, a group of lt tits with a st treecreeper, a pair of dabchicks, and I won't have the time this weekend as my parents are visiting (though I'm still going to twitch a R L Buzzard Sunday morning!)
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timwootton
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The group of monochromes have worked out spectacularly well - superb illustrations - be sure to show us the published work.
The goosanders are right up there with the best of your studio work - enthralling and thoroughly captivating images- truly excellent.
Love the sketched chiff, too.
The goosanders are right up there with the best of your studio work - enthralling and thoroughly captivating images- truly excellent.
Love the sketched chiff, too.
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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We are all waiting for the rush now you have wet our appetite.
Lovely pic's all.
Lovely pic's all.
Gill Osborne
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WOW!!!! :eek!: Love those Goosanders but the Coal Tits do it for me :t: They are in a rather magical setting - I would never have come up with that idea
How on earth do you keep coming up with new ideas and settings to put your birds in (can't remember the proper word......oh no, yes I can - it's composition! :-O
Love them! B
I want I want I WANT!!!! :-O
Oh do I HAVE to go to work now? I want to stay and watch you paint!!!
How on earth do you keep coming up with new ideas and settings to put your birds in (can't remember the proper word......oh no, yes I can - it's composition! :-O
Love them! B
I want I want I WANT!!!! :-O Oh do I HAVE to go to work now? I want to stay and watch you paint!!!
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nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
thanks for al the comments on these ones, I hope they convey some of the pleasure I had in seeing and painting them. I really am in the mood to paint, but as my parents are on their way and I've spent all day cooking christmas dinner, there's just no time this weekend, b*gger!
birdpotter
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I guess we are all going to have to wait for the rush. I expect you to skip school for the next three days (after the visit from your parents) and produce all these thing you mentioned, so that we can have our appetites appeased.
Strandman
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If you see the Roughleg, do that first...
buzzard12
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First of all the Chiff Chaff is a fantastic little sketch.Nick. Goosanders are superg too, great design sense displayed in the strong group composition. The Coal tits are just lovely.
Rough Legs often stay in the same area for long periods, if not whole winters, so I'd say you have a good chance of catching up on the beast. Best of look!
Rough Legs often stay in the same area for long periods, if not whole winters, so I'd say you have a good chance of catching up on the beast. Best of look!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
Still not caught up with the roughleg, though had an encounter with a rare visitor from another direction in the form of a cattle egret - damn thing was just a head bobbing up from behind a patch of grass for most of the time, so no real sketches of it (and haven't taken a photo of them yet so will have to wait to load them up). Here's a wallcreeper from a few weeks back:
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