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nickderry · Apr 21, 2010

caspians just sublime - a species I have yet to see, they look perfectly balanced on paper here. The lappies are ever so more than just a little bit special indeed - a superb composition and a hugely powerful graphic quality - I'm sure Robert Gillmore himself would love to have done this in linocut. (I know I'd have been pleased to have done this in any medium)

nickderry · Apr 21, 2010

WOO HOO 1000 POSTS!!!!!!!!!

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buzzard12 · Apr 21, 2010

nickderry said:
WOO HOO 1000 POSTS!!!!!!!!!

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Should I go to the off License then?

timwootton · Apr 21, 2010

buzzard12 said:
Should I go to the off License then?

Not that you need a reason

but of course you should; get me a couple af lagers while you're at it! B

Very noble terns - perfect (I imagine) but this lapwing piece is way up there and off the scale; one of your very, very best and stemming from such strong drawing with a very obvious need to make this image. Superb!!

buzzard12 · Apr 21, 2010

timwootton said:
Not that you need a reason but of course you should; get me a couple af lagers while you're at it! B

Very noble terns - perfect (I imagine) but this lapwing piece is way up there and off the scale; one of your very, very best and stemming from such strong drawing with a very obvious need to make this image. Superb!!

Off to the shop for catfood any how, will grab you a couple of Tenants Tim...

Bottle of Buckfast for Nick...

Glad you both like the painting, thanks for the kind words...

colleenc · Apr 21, 2010

beautiful lapwing painting, simply done and the size must really give it presence has an oriental quality to it...and the color tones really are unique...

Strandman · Apr 21, 2010

buzzard12 said:
First of all a Caspian Tern from yesterday. This is a bird I really struggle with on the deck, hard to get that gargantuan bill right in relation to the rest of the bird, it looks like it should be heavy enough to stop the poor sod taking off, yet these birds hold it rather high generally.(They even manage to look rather gracefull in the process)
Anyhow, I digress...

what a great flying Caspian: looks truly like the big but elegant bird it is

solitaryVSong · Apr 21, 2010

That last Caspian looks like you got just what you want: an elegant bird with a seemingly impossibly heavy bill. It DOES look heavy!

Rahul Parekh · Apr 22, 2010

love the behaviour and action in your drawings and paintings. looking lively Alan

beautiful & pleasing work...love it

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Cheers, Rahul

Woody · Apr 23, 2010

Those lappys are simply outstanding! I'm just about speechless.

Mike

RussB · Apr 24, 2010

Caspian Terns - what creatures! These sketches blow me away and look spot on. I shouldn't compare my stuff to others but the a sketch of one in my Morroco thread compares favourably to these, which can't be a bad thing!
Flight pose is damn near perfect, too.

We need to let Nick D loose on these beasties, I'm sure he's straining at the leash!

Russ

buzzard12 · May 20, 2010

Spring Migrants

Been a bit lazy with posting, suffice to say been birding a lot on my days off and have enjoyed returning migrants hugely, the floodgates are now open here. Arctic Terns aplenty, some biro sketches here from Sandhamn, along with Ringed Plover...

buzzard12 · May 20, 2010

Migrant passerines here, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher....

buzzard12 · May 20, 2010

Spent a couple of days in a hide photographing Thrush Nightingale, some sketches here. Got some great photos to, which are on the blog, along with accounts of the past 10 days birding. Also a Bluethroat, a crackerjack male seen at Landsort...

buzzard12 · May 20, 2010

Flycatcher been the big feature of the past week, have seen four species! Pied Flycather males here...

buzzard12 · May 20, 2010

Collared Flycatcher, a quite brilliant bird. I have managed to see 4 males in the past week, seems to be on the increase here in spring, perhaps expanding it's range. Also had a male Red Breasted Flycatcher on Landsort, but all too briefly and didn't get a sketch...

buzzard12 · May 20, 2010

Almost there, Wheatear and Yellowhammer, done with a very fine, scratchy felt tip pen.

And thats the lot. Off to Edinborough later today for best mates stag party, something I am looking forward to and dreading simultaneously..

Woody · May 20, 2010

Superb.

Very little more I can say about as damn near perfect a set of sketches as I've ever seen.

Mike

solitaryVSong · May 20, 2010

Woody said:
Superb.

Very little more I can say about as damn near perfect a set of sketches as I've ever seen.

Mike

Yes, these are truly exceptional. It's beyond me how anyone can do such a good job on the small, always active passerines. Really a pleasure to see.

colleenc · May 20, 2010

somehow missed the caspian terns, and having just done them myself for the first time, I'm so amazed at yours, the beak is perfect and how you manage that is way beyond me right, now.9 (in fact that part of every sketch is a miracle, each one fitting in not stuck on like mine)

thing is, every sketch you do has such precision, describing the bird, the attitude and just that one moment so richly, makes me want to break my pencils and take up knitting sometimes.....:cat:

in this batch I completely fell in love with the flycatchers...

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