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Strandman · Mar 3, 2013

ed keeble said:
To escape the bogging, I know I should stop, sketch, dabble and learn, forget about big finished work for a little while. So that's the resolution for this spring up-coming.

Thanks for the encouragement all- its only mild bogging rather than any grander form of artist's despair, so a bit o' drawing should do the trick.

Here's a Ringed Plover puffed upon the roost yesterday- actually yawning rather than calling, but it would take a bit of cartooning to make that clearer.

solitaryVSong · Mar 4, 2013

ed keeble said:
Thanks for the encouragement all- its only mild bogging rather than any grander form of artist's despair, so a bit o' drawing should do the trick.

Here's a Ringed Plover puffed upon the roost yesterday- actually yawning rather than calling, but it would take a bit of cartooning to make that clearer.

Wonderful work on that bored/tired plover!

JTMB · Mar 7, 2013

Love the yawning plover! Birds work so hard just to earn continued survival that I'm surprised we don't see them yawning more often...!

Strandman · Mar 24, 2013

JTMB said:
Love the yawning plover! Birds work so hard just to earn continued survival that I'm surprised we don't see them yawning more often...!

oof- bumped onto page 2

well-done you up threaders

slightly distracted by other things, but still trying to stick to a pic-a-month discipline

March as looking tricky, but I had a spare hour the other day whilst on a non-bird mission, sneaked into Rye Meads RSPB and hired some RSPB bins for £1.50 and found myself talking to a Kingfisher- too close, too samey samey with a million photos, but close enough to whisper to it to flip upstream to a big tangle of recently uprooted roots and arrange itself more interestingly- and happily it did

colleenc · Mar 24, 2013

Love the plover. Great tangle for the kingfisher

buzzard12 · Mar 25, 2013

Tangle looks very Keebly and promising already...

Woody · Mar 25, 2013

I see it hidin' there!

Mike

Andrew H · Mar 25, 2013

Whispering is only just permissable, seek help if you get to the stroking stage......Lovely painting by the way !

Bigshent · Mar 25, 2013

Now Ed thats one hell of a tangle of roots rendered perfect to my eyes and luckily they are still young enough to pick out the fisher BRILLIANT sir:t:

timwootton · Mar 25, 2013

Now then mate - there's so much of this last painting which is superb, but especially the rendering of the water's surface laft of the (amazingly) tangled roots. These moments in your work are utterly beautiful - lovely indeed. I suppose the kingfisher is in there because it's a painting of a kingfisher, but you could just as easily left it out and titled it the same. Love it.

solitaryVSong · Apr 3, 2013

Woody said:
I see it hidin' there!

Mike

Took me a while, with a bit of magnification, but there it was. Unlike our Belted Kingfisher wish perches in the open and is hard to miss.

Lykos · Apr 3, 2013

every time astonished what I see here

Strandman · May 13, 2013

Hello all.

April kind of slid by with various doings, but to get rolling again I've blown the dust off the easel and repainted the fluffed Beardies of March.

Now to confront the colours of spring: I see it's busy fingers have been daubing vile green all about. There've been some great drake Shovelers loafing in the marsh and really I should try and do them justice rather than creeping about looking for Garganey that aren't there.

solitaryVSong · May 14, 2013

ed keeble said:
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Now to confront the colours of spring: I see it's busy fingers have been daubing vile green all about...

Vile Green All About?!?! We just came home from birding in an area where spring has barely arrived, and migrants are quite visible, to find a lush jungle surrounding our house. But I have to confess it was nice to see. Painting those vile greens on the other hand is something else!

Wonderful painting in your unique style Ed!! We will see where the vile greens lead. I imagine one day I'll be shocked to see another unique painting largely in green.

colleenc · May 15, 2013

Marvelous Ed !

Bigshent · May 17, 2013

colleenc said:
Marvelous Ed !

I will echo that

JennyMK · May 27, 2013

Love the tangled roots, and the colors are just amazing! It's always so inspiring going through your thread!

Strandman · May 30, 2013

solitaryVSong said:
Vile Green All About?!?!

Actually I looked a little too far forward with that comment- as of today the vile greens are still only slimey fingers reaching say six inches up into the beautiful remains of winter, but not yet all over it.

Here's a shot at capturing a full plumage drake Shoveler from last week, doing his harlequin hippo thing and maybe pondering the spring that has passed. This week his ducklings are hatching and by next week he will be moulting.

Once again this started as an effort at a sensitive and dripping watercolour, but it went wrong and so got the big stick applied to it.

colleenc · May 31, 2013

He's georgous

Oskar Moilanen · May 31, 2013

You've got so many colours into that one, quite hallucinogenic. Very nice.

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