From Tim Wootton's Studio (3 Viewers)

[jomo]

Have to echo Woody here, the sunlight on the back of the BHG is phenom. The eider is a fantastic composition -- almost feels a little unsettling the way the landscape looms over her.

 

[colleenc]

I'm just awestruck by your field work.....and yes someone has read every page, took me over a month, and more than 100 as I read some pages several times, your work has been my teacher, and answered a lot of questions, tho I seem to keep coming across words and expressions I've never heard before on this side of the pond.

 

[mark richards]

you are not the only one...and i live this side of the pond , nice to have you with us hope you enjoy ....mark.

 

[nickderry]

Certainly have been through the whole 100 pages, and on each page the bar just gets higher and higher. A wonderful sunny Orkney day has just been brought to a grey miserable day in France.

 

[spizaetos]

I'll repeat the words of Nick that "the bar just gets higher and higher"!
Excellent depiction of birds bathing in light!
Masterful!

Paschalis

 

[buzzard12]

Where's me dictionary? Shelducklings are fantastic, then theres that sun drenched Black Head, wow!

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

love them all espec. the BHgull

 

[AStevenson]

Tim, that BHG's rubbish you can't work out the tertial fringes at all, and as for that common gull, where are it's greater coverts, call yourself an artist, I don't know.......

but look, lovely soft shelducklings....everbody say ahh, they are cute wee things.:t:

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[timwootton]

Oooo Andrew - you and yer frertial tinges (actually, I painted them in but only on the other side of the bird - I got bored by the time I got to this side).
I just had to make a quick drawing of this encounter - one of many involving these two species recently.

And a sketch page of peregrines.

 

[nickderry]

well shut my mouth - I really don't have anything to say about these! They speak for themselves.

 

[Woody]

Damn, that's bl**dy good!

And it's so unfair you've got peregrines to watch!

Mike

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

Just love these Tim .
Are you going for that 100 challenge with Colleen ? she certainly hides her light under a bushel.
I hope these sketches are going to be published sometime. (Tim's Sketches from the Orkney's)

 

[Keith Glasgow]

Just love these Tim .
Are you going for that 100 challenge with Colleen ? she certainly hides her light under a bushel.
I hope these sketches are going to be published sometime. (Tim's Sketches from the Orkney's)

A book is the way to go - something like Keith Brockie's range of sketchbooks, but maybe in a larger format. I can see it taking shape already!

The "picture's worth a thousand words" saying, would be a gross understatement here- these pictures really have so much to say.

Love the Peregrine studies.....

Keith.

 

[Strandman]

Just been back for another look- I could contemplate that sploosh of colour on the gull's head for ages.

 

[jacquot]

I love these sketches/paintings with notes. Really love them, as much as anything you do. I like the process, it's something to be learned from, for anyone, about how to see, plus the pleasure of the art itself. Just great. I see peregrines in NYC fairly regularly, BTW, from my office windows looking out over the Hudson. It is amazing to see them here! I scour for them at a hawk watch during migration, and then come to work in the summer, and here they are!

 

[Rahul Parekh]

excellent work Tim, love it |=)|

 

[timwootton]

Sorry for the delay, Mike. If you can't read the text I can type a version (although there's nothing particularly enlightening in there).
Suffice to say this is the closest I've ever been to an otter in the wild - and for over 5 minutes of thrilling viewing.

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

love the otter, not the one that ate my fish I hope

 

[colleenc]

Tim, just such a privilege to see these, I'm in awe of your ability to capture the essentials for description, yet maintain the most fluid and free application of color, a perfect marriage of description and art to my mind.

re the bushel comment, I wasn't hiding, just taking a respectful place here with so many skilled and knowledgeable artists;-)

 

[nickderry]

the otter is superb, just the suggestion of one - exactly as you see them for real.