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From Tim Wootton's Studio (2 Viewers)
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timwootton
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It's still on! - Portsmouth v erm - a Portugese side.
Strandman
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Curious thing about the palaeolithic cave painters is that despite presumably being surrounded by birds and interacting with them on a daily basis, they almost never painted them (almost no birds at all in Lascaux). There's the occasional goose/bustard carved artefact from that period, but basically nothing painted. It's part of the wider puzzle about why the cave painters selected certain animal species to paint and pretty much ignored others even though they were common at the time- so plenty of mammoths and few reindeer etc. etc. Very few paintings of felines or other predators.
For any fans of the cave painters (shame they can't have their own thread on here) there's a more recently discovered cave Chauvet which is just mind-bending for its age (30,000 years), quality, variety.
The Chauvet crew did manage to knock out a quick owl:
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/images/chauvet-owl1.jpg
but as a bit of art it doesn't hold a candle (or a burning stick) to for example their lion portrait- for that and others worth a click on the orange dots here, but not if you plan on doing anything else this morning.
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/gallery.php
timwootton
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Great link Ed - thanks. Beautifully preserved representations and intriguing commentary (excepting the classification of 'rhino' as a predatory animal). This, and Alan's comment about painting surfaces, is making my head start to buzz.
Just a bit.
Just a bit.
EliS
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Wow, those are splendid! Actually reminds me of something a friend of mine (he is very ecological) said, when he heard I draw and paint. "You know... You're wasting paper there. Perhaps you should draw on stone." I just laughed then, but... I'm not laughing anymore, those are brilliant!
Elina
Elina
Woody
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Awe inspiring to think of those artists creating such beautiful drawings all the time ago, sends a shiver down the spine actually.
My friend Chris Saunderson creates his own rocks to paint on: http://www.newa-uk.com/gallery/pictureviewer.php?catno=248
Mike
My friend Chris Saunderson creates his own rocks to paint on: http://www.newa-uk.com/gallery/pictureviewer.php?catno=248
Mike
buzzard12
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Also enjoyed the link Ed, thanks for that...amazing to think of these artists from so long ago should now have their work posted on Tim Wooton's art thread! Rather bizarre it would be from their point of view if one could pop back in time to attempt to explain it to them over a leg of mammoth...
As an aside have been looking at the Fair Isle site daily of late and I am seriously considering getting there next autumn to fulfill a boyhood ambition and spend two weeks birding on the island. And sod the expense. It's not just the rarities, its the commoner migrants, environment and birding history that draw me,(OK, the rarities are enough to send any red blooded birders mind racing..!
)http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest.htmLink here...
ARTHUR BISHOP
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Super work as always Tim. The slabs look quite lucrative.
timwootton
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was asked to collect a shearwater from a friend, only to find it was a razorbill - and very badly oiled (and partially eaten). My first reaction was to bin it, but partly because of the circumstances of its death, I decided to make some studies instead.
Now I'm not overly sentimental about working from dead stuff - they are what they are, but this one was quite difficult knowingthat its death (and many, many more local seabirds) was totally avoidable. It seems a ship has washed its tanks out in Scapa Flow and that is f*cking criminal!!!
So there you have it.
Now I'm not overly sentimental about working from dead stuff - they are what they are, but this one was quite difficult knowingthat its death (and many, many more local seabirds) was totally avoidable. It seems a ship has washed its tanks out in Scapa Flow and that is f*cking criminal!!!
So there you have it.
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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Thats a super study Tim of a horrible needless way to die.
timwootton
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I made a variety of sketches for this commission and this was the one chosen. I quite like bits of it up to now, yet I think I'm missing a trick somewhere. Anyway, I'll get the birds in and see how that alters things.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
24"x18" acrylic on canvas.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
24"x18" acrylic on canvas.
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jomo
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Looking good, Tim! I think my only potential nit would be the circular arrangement of the painting's subjects around a central point, with nothing to occupy the space they frame. Perhaps moving the upper right bird closer to the left, or send it further off into the distance, to follow the direction that the horizon and the stone wall leads?
timwootton
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Yes - that's very good Jo. I was wondering about that area and I think your suggestion could work. Many thanks for your insight. I also think the addition of darker cloud-shadows on the hillside will add some further interest (?).
Strandman
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Maybe move the smaller rock to the right and down a bit. so that instead of being a marker for the top left bird, it becomes a connecter between that bird and the sheep/post/right hand top bird.
Alternatively, there's just room to give the sheep a speech bubble. Not sure about caption- maybe saying to the Lapwings I don't think this tumble drier is working.
