On The Hoof - Fieldwork From Orkney (1 Viewer)

colleenc · Mar 30, 2011

SO good to have your new thread up and running, and like all here I feel so grateful to know of you and your work, which always inspires, informs and makes an experience of unmitigated pleasure.

Sure hope the book comes soon from Amazon...

and hope soon to get back into the birds, the landscape painting at last is starting to respond to all my efforts and work , and when I get it under control I have so much I want to paint with birds. The inspiration of your work is always a mainstay in my mind and heart.

timwootton · Apr 6, 2011

Thank you all for welcoming the new thread so warmly.
The following are from the past few days whenever I've had the opportunity to sneak off, or indeed just peer through the scope from the house.

timwootton · Apr 6, 2011

. . . and these are from today;

JTMB · Apr 6, 2011

Wonderful as usual, Tim! The oystercatchers are a real favorite of mine - don't get to the coast as often as I would like to see them. However, is there not a law in Orkney forbidding sketches of anything of non-avian genes?

Strandman · Apr 6, 2011

what a nice treat to have these drawings fluttering down

things seem more right in the world when you know that artists are still out there, sketching birds

colleenc · Apr 6, 2011

ed keeble said:
what a nice treat to have these drawings fluttering down

things seem more right in the world when you know that artists are still out there, sketching birds

yes when it all gets too much there is always a sense of reality here...
feel like I'm in the field with you here Tim

Woody · Apr 6, 2011

There's a freshness to this bunch that whiffs strongly of spring, delightful.

Mike

timwootton · Apr 6, 2011

Woo-hoo; onto my second page and over 900 views - that's what I call a thread!!!

B

ps - thanks folks - I'm still feeling my way in a tad at the moment, but I may have news of a rather exciting field-project coming up soon.

nickderry · Apr 6, 2011

fanatstic fieldwork - some wonderful characters in the rooks and common gulls, and the hare studies are second to none - good to see that you're getting out, even if it seems to be in the rain.

ARTHUR BISHOP · Apr 6, 2011

ed keeble said:
what a nice treat to have these drawings fluttering down

things seem more right in the world when you know that artists are still out there, sketching birds[/QUOTE

can but agree

solitaryVSong · Apr 7, 2011

All a pleasure to see Tim. I especially like that second gull drawing. I'm looking forward to seeing many, many more of these.

colleenc · May 14, 2011

Tim just got your book....OMG what a gift, the art, the writing, and the unconditional sharing of so much hard won knowlege...thank you thank you

halftwo · May 14, 2011

nickderry said:
fanatstic fieldwork - some wonderful characters in the rooks and common gulls, and the hare studies are second to none - good to see that you're getting out, even if it seems to be in the rain.

Agreed.

mattybohan · May 14, 2011

Wonderful!!! very lively

Birdspot · May 18, 2011

So very beautiful, and it is such a treat to be able to see what you are seeing. I am having Orkney envy! The sketches are so immediate, and I feel like I am there.

Lykos · May 18, 2011

the gulls ...my favourits :t: but all are perfect in my eyes

greetings Gaby

timwootton · May 19, 2011

Thanks.
I’m finding time for fieldwork extremely tight and most days I do get a spare moment I tend to be out in my little corner of the property planting my shelterbelt which will, in a few years’ time, become one of the migrant hotspots in the whole of the county – one dreams! We also dug a small pond in the wettest corner of the field.
The one bit of drawing I have done was of curlew courtship, which seems to entail the male pursuing the female incessantly, occasionally tapping her on the rump with his bill whilst she threatens brutal retaliation and makes herself as unpleasant as possible. The little male is relentless yet she appears to give him no encouragement at all. How curlews actually manage to procreate given these circumstances is beyond me. Having said that, we have two children yet I get a similar response to any amorous advances I may make . . . . :eek!:

Woody · May 19, 2011

Presumably it's the 'tapping on her rump with your bill' that Mrs. W objects to?

Great observational drawing/painting as always.
You've picked a rough time of the year to be getting too involved in 'house stuff', even if it is with fabulous, long-term goals. I wish you the best of British with it, but we're missing your fieldwork around here!

Mike

Apodemus · May 19, 2011

Woody said:
Presumably it's the 'tapping on her rump with your bill' that Mrs. W objects to?

Maybe she just objects to getting a bill in the first place.

solitaryVSong · May 19, 2011

You've got to stop digging that pond. No wonder you have no time for any art work.

Boy, what a beautiful view you have though! I think half the time I was out I'd just be tempted to sit and enjoy it.

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