I've not seen your work before, wow wow wow, I love the vertigo inducing slope of the stag work and how you let the antlers go out of the edge, much more lively than the static pose in the center type. The flight sketches make me want to camp on your doorstep and understand how you do that. Do you think of the wings as as one plane bending or what? Any hints deeply appreciated.
Colleen, Thankyou for the comments. Interestingly allot of people either love or
hate the stag with Antlers cropped off the top but I thought it was better for
the composition. Also the animal should not be defined by its head gear
should it. Brave or stupid well you decide? Your quite welcome to camp on my
doorstep but they are steep and probably a bit uncomfortable:-O I appreciate
your compliment though.
As Far as understanding wings goes the more you can look at them up close
the better. As a falconer I get to see them real close and moving so you can
understand the mechanics of a birds wing. Each specific group of feathers
has a purpose and is attached in a unique way to the skeleton of the wing.
One of the best ways to
understand wings is to watch extremely slow motion footage of birds taking
off,and flying at level speed. There have recently been some real good pieces of
footage showing this kind of thing. Geese following a boat for example.
I think The series Life of birds with David Attenborough was full of this kind
of thing. Even looking at a recently dead bird is very useful as a learning aid
to understanding how the feathers lay and how the wings move.
I hope this has helped
