On The Hoof - Fieldwork From Orkney (3 Viewers)

[birdboybowley]

AGree with Paschalis with regard to my favourites. Nice work indeed Tim. Think a can of Stella in the hide would look better though...

 

[RussB]

Breathtakingly good work here again. I love the capture of light on these. How do you do it? Everytime I see stuff like this I do compare it what I do and say 'one day maybe I'll be able to draw like this'. I would think those days are still some way off!

Wonderfully inspiring stuff.

Russ

 

[Andrew H]

I think a Beer fridge in the corner would be better. Great Sketches Tim, as always.....

 

[buzzard12]

All of this is inspiring stuff, the colour skua is glowing, you just dont get work on paper like this unless painted outdoors. Enjoyed your last blog post immensely also...

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

Love those sketches Tim

 

[solitaryVSong]

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

Paschalis

Have to agree. What a treat to see.

And I'm dying with envy looking at that hide. I can't imagine what it must be like to sketch in what seems to be incredible comfort. I'm sure that's just a matter of the grass being greener on the other side though....

 

[nickderry]

your signature species - so nothing to say here, always nothing but the best when you're doing skuas. I'm going to have to draw attention to the perfect snipe that's almost hidden in the top right hand corner of the page.

 

[solitaryVSong]

Just had to come back for a second look. These are you at your best I think.

 

[Woody]

I'm selling all of my unused sketchbooks and buying beer instead...

Wonderfully light-soaked sketches, you are on a roll of 'excellentness' at the moment!

Mike

 

[TorbenBack]

And I'm dying with envy looking at that hide. I can't imagine what it must be like to sketch in what seems to be incredible comfort. I'm sure that's just a matter of the grass being greener on the other side though....

I´m also dying with envy with hides like this, which we don´t see around here in DK. I “copied” one of them when I was in Orkney in May, just in case we might build one – with or without a Beer fridge. B

Like everyone else I find these sketches brilliant / breathtaking / wonderful, and they give me a lot of inspiration. I will have to repeat myself by saying that far more often I find sketches like these to be far better that finished paintings. Perhaps it´s the spontaneity when you are out there and you catch the atmosphere and light and everything………. anyway they are just superb. The coloured Skua is my absolute favorite.

Torben

 

[timwootton]

Thanks folks - and thank you for the nice words about my hide! - Wootton-designed and built, I'm available for on-site construction work (assuming someone's prepared to pay the travel expenses ) - the beer-fridge is, of course, standard . . . contents at the owners' discretion.

 

[colleenc]

OMG I got so far behind on this wonderful inspiring thread, somehow the link broke for instant notification, I just thought you were off lazing somewhere.


the hide is perfect does it have a heater? or are you using gin?

coming back again after I go to the coast, these are just too inspiring to stay home, hope to find the heermanns gulls again and give it a go.

 

[timwootton]

Colleen - the Wootton-Hide refrigerator works as any normal heat exchanger - cold on the inside means warm and toasty on the outside. Perfect for parking one's backside on . .. now out you go and get those gulls

 

[nickderry]

OMG I got so far behind on this wonderful inspiring thread, somehow the link broke for instant notification, I just thought you were off lazing somewhere.


the hide is perfect does it have a heater? or are you using gin?

coming back again after I go to the coast, these are just too inspiring to stay home, hope to find the heermanns gulls again and give it a go.

for instant notification to subscribed threads, you have to visit the thread again after each notification otherwise it stops sending you a message. If that makes sense, I should have been asleep hours ago!

 

[colleenc]

thanks Nick I must have missed one somewhere, now I know.

 

[Lykos]

super!!!!:t:

 

[timwootton]

A couple of oystercatchers from last night and juv swallows from this morning - from 'the hide' B

 

[timwootton]

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[spizaetos]

Brilliant!
I love them all , particularly the last two swallow pages..
The combination of simplicity and precision in your lines
fascinates me most!

Paschalis

 

[nickderry]

too good - such intense searching for shapes and forms all expressed with such solid lines and conviction.