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Welcome to Nick's dining room table. (2 Viewers)
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timwootton
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And I love it like this. Looking great.
peter mathios
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Hairdryers are the way to go when all the blending is done! I really like the merganser piece. There is a great sense of movement. The new one is really coming along as well. Maybe you should post some of your earlier stuff that you are talking about. There is a rawness and trueness to the first steps of paintings that I love and you really have it here. Looking forward to the finished piece!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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Another corker on its way Nick
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
I'll have to have a look for some of my earlier paintings when I visit my parents in August. I'll do a little retrospective of them, including my attempts at photo realism (you'll see why I abandoned lots of detail!)
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
I got up at 6:00am! FOOL! Here's todays sketches, going all goo goo, the redstarts have got babies! So have the green woodpeckers (too quick flying off through the trees to sketch).
So, we have: Goosander (no chicks seen today!) Redstart, baby redstarts (the void to the left is a Middle Spotted pecker - not part of the same scene obviously!), Lesser Spotted pecker (baby redstart again) and some Marsh Tits, note the flyover Hawfinch.
So, we have: Goosander (no chicks seen today!) Redstart, baby redstarts (the void to the left is a Middle Spotted pecker - not part of the same scene obviously!), Lesser Spotted pecker (baby redstart again) and some Marsh Tits, note the flyover Hawfinch.
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timwootton
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Superb set of drawings again Nick. The goosander is tremendous - lovely colourwork, too - totally convincing bird. The foot-picking start is wonderfully observed as are the fledgelings - excellent studies.
I'm popping out right now to do some oystercatcher and arctic tern drawings (hopefully) - I can feel a birdy painting coming on.
It's Father's Day - so I can do as I bl**dy-well please!
I'm popping out right now to do some oystercatcher and arctic tern drawings (hopefully) - I can feel a birdy painting coming on.
It's Father's Day - so I can do as I bl**dy-well please!
ARTHUR BISHOP
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Nick you are certainly in the grove ,this is really great stuff.
peter mathios
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Man, I love your work. The study with the leg up is really impressive!!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
Update from the dining room table. A whole weekend to go sketching and it rains (and the French have the nerve to say it rains all the time in Wales). So while I drink my cup of tea, curse the weather and think what I'll try to paint today, I thought I'd share a quote that applies to how my paintings are going at the moment, and one that I think captures perfectly the insane need to draw living, moving things:
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, all kill their inspiration and then sing about the grief."
U2, The Fly, taken from Achtung Baby. One of the greatest songs of all time IMHO (and I say the same of any song that I like at one time or another).
Hopefully I'll post some paintings later rather than other people's lyrics!
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, all kill their inspiration and then sing about the grief."
U2, The Fly, taken from Achtung Baby. One of the greatest songs of all time IMHO (and I say the same of any song that I like at one time or another).
Hopefully I'll post some paintings later rather than other people's lyrics!
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
and while I'm getting drunk on another cheap bottle of plonk, I'll reminisce and look at what I was doing 8 years ago at the tender age of 16. These are from Belvide Reservoir in Staffordshire, my local patch between 1997 and 2001. I miss this place, always something to sketch and hides.
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Vectis Birder
Itchy feet
Oh. My. God... Nick those are fantastic. Like Woody I'd be proud of those, too.
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