Hi Andy,
Your superbly rendered flight sketches are really inspirational. As I'm a relative newcomer to bird art I've bothered everyone one here re materials and techniques etc. Are you using a particular pencil and paper? Also are the flight sketches made using bins, scope or both? I assume its taken years of practice to achieve this level of drawing, but would you know if the technique of blinking and 'burning' the image of the bird on the retina is of any use for nailing flying birds? I guess it's pure observation otherwise.
Apologies for the interrogation, but this is fantastic stuff.
Cheers
Russ
Unadulterated magic - simply uplifting to see. (Looks like Megan's on the right path now mate! - well done with her.)
Andy,
Many thanks for these tips. I hope to while away many hours trying to fly like the birds this summer. No I won't be hang-gliding or sky diving, though.
Keep up the fabulous work.
Russ
Andy some how missed the last two groups....heartmelting, if I was a Victorian lady I'd be swooning.....and thanks for some of the tips, you falconers have a true advantage of really seeing the birds up close. Yesterday I got a glimpse of a white tailed kite up close, as I was asked to put on a restraining band so she could be force fed( a young one brought to the Bird Rescue where I volunteer.)
There is simply nothing like being that close to a bird of prey, and making eye contact with that power.... your drawings have some of that feeling, no art will ever really capture it...still we must keep trying..
Bravo! :t:Colleen, there is nothing that comes close for me being with or around these magnificent creatures. Even the ones. That I have trained that are really tame have detatched almost sacred knowingness if that's a word even!? They have a quality of character nothing else has. Capturing, understanding and experiencing this has touched my life in so many ways. When painting them I get to see something of that and flying them I almost feel I'm with them up there. I love it , can't get enough of it . If any small part of that comes across in my art then I'm succeeding. Thankyou for your comments
Now - you really do know how to p!ss me off, don't you! Look at that! - light, form, life and mood and just because you had a few b100dy minutes spare!! Superb.Here is a piece i did for coleens thread but thought I'd put up here as its such a different approach but I enjoyed the freedom of it.