Wow! Your sketches are so detailed! Are these all done in the field straight from seeing the bird? I cannot believe how you are able to remember and capture so many details of plumage and lighting with a moving bird! Absolutely amazing! I truly am jealous of your talent!:t:
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From the sketchbook... (3 Viewers)
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timwootton
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Trust me CCRII - You're not the only one!!!
Woody
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buzzard12
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Okay, think this may well be done...been a bit of a labour of love this one, a lot of hours gone into this largish canvas.
Think I should sign it now and let it stand as it is, terrified of overpainting this one and ruining it. My main worry at one point was that the Tuftie furthest to the left didn't quite belong, but that passed and now I'm happy I included it. Generally don't like painting an even number of birds in small group scenes, always find an odd number of subjects easier to balance.
Had been tempted to go back in and work on the water surface some more, adding some darker tones, but my concern is that it would overcomplicate the scene, take away from the birds and generally muddy the whole thing up. As it stands it represents things pretty well as they appeared in bright, overcast light and for once it is not far from what I had in mind from the start.
Many thanks to all here for the comments and encouragment posted here while this was in progress.
Flash photo here, will wait for natural light to photo the canvas before posting to the gallery over the next day or two.
Think I should sign it now and let it stand as it is, terrified of overpainting this one and ruining it. My main worry at one point was that the Tuftie furthest to the left didn't quite belong, but that passed and now I'm happy I included it. Generally don't like painting an even number of birds in small group scenes, always find an odd number of subjects easier to balance.
Had been tempted to go back in and work on the water surface some more, adding some darker tones, but my concern is that it would overcomplicate the scene, take away from the birds and generally muddy the whole thing up. As it stands it represents things pretty well as they appeared in bright, overcast light and for once it is not far from what I had in mind from the start.
Many thanks to all here for the comments and encouragment posted here while this was in progress.
Flash photo here, will wait for natural light to photo the canvas before posting to the gallery over the next day or two.
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timwootton
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Beautiful, just right, splendid, lovely, lovely painting.
Love it.
Love it.
(there's 5 birds - thats an odd number
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
(there's 5 birds - thats an odd number
Love it.
buzzard12
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Beautiful, just right, splendid, lovely, lovely painting.
Love it.
Love it.
(there's 5 birds - thats an odd number
Love it.
Ah yes, but it wouldn't of been the same with just four
Glad you like it...
All those hours watching Sesame Street as a child have finally come to fruition....
timwootton
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Clever lad - now you can have a sweetieAh yes, but it wouldn't of been the same with just four
Glad you like it...
All those hours watching Sesame Street as a child have finally come to fruition....
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
What I like about this is that it sticks two fingers up at what we were taught in art class at school, it's a mess, and it's brilliant, the birds are everywhere, where they should be and doing their thing where they want to do it. And what's more, it works, better than what we were told should work! Because it's true. Love it! Keep them coming, looking forward to seeing plenty more colourwork as the Swedish winter draws in.
Woody
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Amen to that!
S'brilliant this, all life and hustle bustle, heaps of atmosphere too.
Woody
ARTHUR BISHOP
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A cracking pic. Alan
buzzard12
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Some Greylag Sketches. Geese are not a group I have spent any time on with regard to sketching, though lots of both Greylags and Barnacles around Stockholm. These at Skeppsholmen, right in the city. Huge feral populations of both breeding freely for years and years now in Sweden, somehow still don't feel like real wild birds...
Nevertheless Barnacles are lovely birds and thinking of doing something on them...
Nevertheless Barnacles are lovely birds and thinking of doing something on them...
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ARTHUR BISHOP
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Strong sketches the second one I would like to see taken further.
timwootton
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You've got the structure of these statuesque creatures really well. Lovely drawings.
spizaetos
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peter mathios
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so much said with so little... very nice!!!
buzzard12
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Just back from a weekend visit to my parents to Ireland. Took the oppurtunity to photograph some of the old paintings now on their walls, all oldies from 1992 to 1996. some water colurs, one huge Short Eared Owl Acrylic(my first), and some experimental ink drawings on acetate, back painted, while I was in animation and had access to the plastic based paint needed for these....
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