solitaryVSong
Well-known member
Hi,
I've been led to this site and specifically this forum by Jo, after commenting on my own blog about how much I liked the work of Nick Derry, which I just discovered recently. So for the last few days I've been poking around here. What a pleasure it's been seeing so much good art!
Oddly enough the title of my last blog post was 'Wildlife Art and Me', where I mentioned how surprised I was at not liking much 'wildlife art' once I turned from years of abstract work to bird art about three years ago. Nick's work and the work of others I've been discovering here over the last few days has been a revelation. There really is good, lively wildlife art being done. I hope to see a whole lot more of it, and maybe create some over the coming weeks and years. I can't tell you how refreshing it is.
Without further ado I'm going to include my last work, assuming I don't have any troubles with attachments. I've been tentatively working my way around bird art for the last three years. I'm fully convinced of the need to work from life but most of my work is based on photos. When I have more time, or maybe just through the sheer example of this forum, I'll force myself to work from life.
In any case here are a number of versions of a Snowy Egret done in watercolor, based on one seen at 'The Meadows' at Cape May, NJ in April, 2009.
Ken
I've been led to this site and specifically this forum by Jo, after commenting on my own blog about how much I liked the work of Nick Derry, which I just discovered recently. So for the last few days I've been poking around here. What a pleasure it's been seeing so much good art!
Oddly enough the title of my last blog post was 'Wildlife Art and Me', where I mentioned how surprised I was at not liking much 'wildlife art' once I turned from years of abstract work to bird art about three years ago. Nick's work and the work of others I've been discovering here over the last few days has been a revelation. There really is good, lively wildlife art being done. I hope to see a whole lot more of it, and maybe create some over the coming weeks and years. I can't tell you how refreshing it is.
Without further ado I'm going to include my last work, assuming I don't have any troubles with attachments. I've been tentatively working my way around bird art for the last three years. I'm fully convinced of the need to work from life but most of my work is based on photos. When I have more time, or maybe just through the sheer example of this forum, I'll force myself to work from life.
In any case here are a number of versions of a Snowy Egret done in watercolor, based on one seen at 'The Meadows' at Cape May, NJ in April, 2009.
Ken