mattybohan
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Thanks so much! It was a fun painting work on.
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mattybohan
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Here is a male bay-breasted warbler. Transparent watercolor on W&N 140 NCP paper 8.5 x 7.5 inches. The detail shot is 3.5x 3 inches.
How do you pick a favorite warbler? Beats me, but these are high on the list. Not necessarily the showiest, but beautiful.
A WIP can be found here.
How do you pick a favorite warbler? Beats me, but these are high on the list. Not necessarily the showiest, but beautiful.
A WIP can be found here.
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timwootton
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Aother great piece - beautifully blended, softly muted colours - a real cracker!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
You must have raised your watercolours so well for them to behave like this - I'm afraid my watercolours terrorise the neighbourhood and mix with a bad crowd of acrylics and sniff glue. Nice to see that there are some people with good parenting skills over their paints! A superbly fresh glow comes from this one.
earleybird
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Matty I love your artwork . I cannot wait to get into watercolouring again . I have just found this thread and noticed that the links in your first post are now dead .
I wonder if it might be an idea to refresh the links in the first post for new visitors in case anyone might think the thread was dead:t:
I wonder if it might be an idea to refresh the links in the first post for new visitors in case anyone might think the thread was dead:t:
mattybohan
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Thanks Colleen, Tim and Woody.
Nick, tell your watercolors, acrylics, glue, collage and anything/everything else, to keep doing exactly what they have been doing. The mix you have going now is perfect.
Thanks Earleybird, I repost-ed those early links to paintings in the early posts. They got pulled off when I revamped the website using Flash a while back.
Nick, tell your watercolors, acrylics, glue, collage and anything/everything else, to keep doing exactly what they have been doing. The mix you have going now is perfect.
Thanks Earleybird, I repost-ed those early links to paintings in the early posts. They got pulled off when I revamped the website using Flash a while back.
mattybohan
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Some new sketches and another non-bird painting... a 5 x 7 inch transparent watercolor of a female bluet damselfly on Lana 140lb HP paper. The detail of the painting is about 2x3 inches. A WIP of the painting can be seen on my blog.
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timwootton
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Abolutely agree, but I despair of illustrating them. Beautiful work as usual, Matty.
Andrew Ellis
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Matty, Just came across this thread for the first time and wanted to say how impressed I am with your skill at watercolour. Very fine work
phil baber
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Matty,
Wondrous!
Wondrous!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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superbly done
mattybohan
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Thanks again for all the nice comments. My time has been pretty limited lately. The dragonfly and damselflies lend themselves nicely to a tiny 5x7 inch format, which fits my time constraints better than my usual larger bird paintings.
Here are some bird sketches...
Our feeders have finally been taken over by the Rose-breasted Grosbeaks... which were previous overrun by annoying house sparrows. Also included is a sketch of a common redpoll that was visiting out thistle feeder this winter. I need to come up with a better setting for it when I get around to painting it.
Here are some bird sketches...
Our feeders have finally been taken over by the Rose-breasted Grosbeaks... which were previous overrun by annoying house sparrows. Also included is a sketch of a common redpoll that was visiting out thistle feeder this winter. I need to come up with a better setting for it when I get around to painting it.
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