ARTHUR BISHOP
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I really like this one Ed.
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nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
You've definitely headed in the right direction with the spotshanks, the third bird was needed. The comp sketch of the 3 birds is a great little drawing in its own right. And the barn owl is a stunningly original view of a bird featured in millions of pictures.
timwootton
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4 colours, shimmering light and glittering birds. Lessons a-plenty here, for one and all.
Up there with the garganey painting.
Up there with the garganey painting.
Strandman
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Hello all- back to my old messy sketching habits with this one. Down to the river where a moulting Dunlin roosting amongst the bricks left from an old Victorian garden now overrun by the tide. Stayed just long enough to be caught in the rain and to be overflown by an Osprey that has been knocking about on the farm for a week but until now avoiding me. So a very nice outing.
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timwootton
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Brickwork exploding from the main character, fully and deservedly centre-stage. Fab drawing. Well done on the osprey - you got any tall, dead pines on the farm Ed 
? And what's the latest regarding the barn owls?
? And what's the latest regarding the barn owls?
Strandman
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Brickwork exploding from the main character, fully and deservedly centre-stage. Fab drawing. Well done on the osprey - you got any tall, dead pines on the farm Ed
Well the Dunlin seems to have gone down well- thank-you gentlemen.
There are indeed some tall dead pines with a nice view of the estuary- they used to hold a heronry a century ago but a retired big game hunter (not family) used to stand underneath and shooot them before he went to church on Sunday mornings. So they are currently vacant...
Barn Owls doing fine- still begging and they have not been run over yet.
Strandman
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Hello all- dodging the rain this weekend, but managed to fluke a lovely Hobby (well all Hobbies are lovely) flushing pigeons over a dark wet stubble whilst I was between the farm shop and rugby. It deserved a capture-the-moment, so the first is done on the side of the box that the groceries were in with the birds a bit crammed together, the second under a strict time self-imposed time limit when I got home. I was absolutely determined to bang in the birds without any pre-drawing etc., so they are a bit of mess and may yet feel some sandpaper on their backs.
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timwootton
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What a startling painting - fresh as paint!!! Big up for this Ed - definitely.
Strandman
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Funny old day today- took a day's holiday to collect dog #1 from vet in Fakenham where where he has just had an eye-wateringly expensive operation to fix a shattered leg joint, managed to get up there in time for five minutes (yes five minutes) sea watching from Cley during which time I saw literally no birds at all. Then two Hobbies on the last leg of the drive to Fakenham. Spent the drive musing amongst other things on what to do with the Hobby pic and decided to ditch the middle pigeons- so apologies to all who urged restraint.
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