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solitaryVSong

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• Mar 7, 2010

• #2,461

timwootton said:

Thirst-quenching drawings

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Sometimes it's just best to let Mr. Wootton speak for the group. He says it so well. Sort of like you didn't know you were all that thirsty, until you see drawings like these. As I've said before, like nature and light distilled right onto the page.

I think I'll now partially follow your example, neglecting the early rise part, and see what new has arrived here. Just about time for the first Kildeer.

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Mar 8, 2010

• #2,462

where did the weekend go? Only had time to do these two yesterday, those distant garganey were a bugger to do and there are perhaps hundreds underneath this final layer!

 

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solitaryVSong

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• Mar 8, 2010

• #2,463

A spatially full painting. Your eye goes forward and backward, traveling through space to pick up on all the birds in their various locations. It is very rich and rewards a lot of looking.

 

colleenc

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• Mar 8, 2010

• #2,464

what a bravura performance in composition here, and I'm so glad to hear even a master has trouble when doing a big group of birds.

 

ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Mar 8, 2010

• #2,465

A feast for the eyes again Nick

 

timwootton

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• Mar 8, 2010

• #2,466

Class.

 

phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Mar 9, 2010

• #2,467

Love the BTDiver sketches, and that male Black Redstart should maybe "cut the lady some slack!" Nice!

 

RussB

Going for Gold

• Mar 12, 2010

• #2,468

Absolutely superb field work, Nick. I must check more of your stuff out. I love the divers in particular - very simple shading and shapes; no mucking around with too much detail, which I find difficult not to do! Something John Busby-ish about these: less is more. Your great cressie grebes are a joy, too. I've been trying to capture courting grebes since day one, and now is the time of year to try again, watch my space.

Russ

 

birdpotter

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• Mar 14, 2010

• #2,469

Really, thirst quenching is the way to go, although, I have to say that I'm already drooling for the next bit of work you share with us (isn't that attractive?).
Tim, you are a genius with words.
Nick, when I grow up I want to have the dedication that you do with your work.

 

phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,470

The grebes, garganey and laps are very C.F.Tunnicliffe.

Perfect, but dear old Charles would've been jealous.

Just looked at it.

Brilliant stuff.

Composition is incredible. Rule of 14ths?

Am wowed! Keep painting in French!

 

Woody

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• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,471

Fieldwork is superb, it goes without saying.

As for the lapwing, gargany, grebe pic; Each of the species if taken in isolation would make a terrific, stand alone painting. The combination of elements to make a whole is one of the reasons why I love your work so much. Genius.

Mike

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,472

just a quick visit to 'drop off' some paintings and sketches before I rush off to work - anybody getting a call off somebody doing a survey this evening, thinkl of me and be very nice to them! 8-P

Sketches, Red Kites building nest, Black Stork and Water Pipits are from Saturday - lovely day out indeed! Big invasion of lapwings going on (all from the car though so no sketches). Plus the nesting tiercel peregrine in the area, and a Great Spot woodpecker.

The Green woodie is from today, if you look closely on the one of him with his tail up - he's not laying an egg!

 

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nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Mar 15, 2010

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and some paintings, Peregrines, then proof I need my hands chopped off, and a half hour painting of curlews and egrets (draw outlines onto cartridge paper for the egrets, brown for the curlews, slap them onto prepainted paper and then just neaten up the gaps and add a few details)

 

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Strandman

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• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,474

nickderry said:

and some paintings, Peregrines, then proof I need my hands chopped off, and a half hour painting of curlews and egrets (draw outlines onto cartridge paper for the egrets, brown for the curlews, slap them onto prepainted paper and then just neaten up the gaps and add a few details)

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them egrets and curlews- n'y touche pas! they are really fine

 

colleenc

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• Mar 15, 2010

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Love the egrets and curlews...and the sketches so effortless it makes one tempted to say "I could do that" until one tries it and make a total botch:-O and finds out what looks so easy is just the practiced hand of the complete master. Never never tire of seeing your work

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,476

ed keeble said:

them egrets and curlews- n'y touche pas! they are really fine

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Agreed, je touche pas!

It was some sort of divine intervention that made me stop there, it felt right. But the tempation was to carry on more, but I would have completely destroyed the piece as there really was nothing more to do on it! (Apart from redo it in collage on another piece of paper with the addition of a hare)

 

ARTHUR BISHOP

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• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,477

I love these Nick.
I keep seeing how many faces I can see in the rock face with the majestic peregrene

 

solitaryVSong

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• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,478

Another appreciation of the curlews and egrets, especially the curlews. I also really like the first peregrine, with all the vegetation. And then the green woodpeckers are something else as well.

As usual a treat to peruse the entire bunch!

 

timwootton

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• Mar 15, 2010

• #2,479

colleenc said:

Love the egrets and curlews...and the sketches so effortless it makes one tempted to say "I could do that" until one tries it and make a total botch:-O and finds out what looks so easy is just the practiced hand of the complete master. Never never tire of seeing your work

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Oh that's just soooo true!


Fantabulastically superificancimatedly exectuted. - wondrous, truly. . . .

 

phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Mar 16, 2010

• #2,480

Nick,

Been trying to work out why I like your stuff so much?

Then I had a Damascien (sp?) Revelation.

You have a talent for capturing light on a subject, and background.
You're work reminds me of Tunnicliffe, yet it remains YOU.

He is the bird-artist that you mostly remind me of. Yet I believe you do not ape him in any way.

Tunnicliffe was a great painter of birds within a landscape. Sometimes at the expense of the subject!

Illegally, I've had a painting of a hen Blackcap, by you, as a Wallpaper. (No! I do not fiscally profit by it!)

It is the bird's incidental compliment to the landscape that fascinates and delights me.

There is something in the composition which leaves me endlessly searching, but always delighted. The mystery of this intrigues me, and pleases. And she is done in, seeming, brush-strokes.

Love it!

The Egrets and Curlew are very fine, impressionistic almost. And light is captured wonderfully! The blue-tones as shadows on white.

C'est incroyable!