Ed's thread (12 Viewers)

[Strandman]

now that's a showy wryneck! I've become familiar with the way they flush more so than what they look like as most of them I see just spring from the side of the path I'm on and disappear. How are the white-arsed knights coming along? (as we call Tringa ochropus in French)

hello all- been some lovely wrynecks for sure, some so close you can see that the eye is most weirdly angled also - not lined up with the beak, but sort of pointing angled downwards at about 4 o'clock (the sort of thing Bowley would get exactly right)

I'm behind on painting with the intervention of a wedding in Cornwall last week where apart from the happy couple highlight was a guillemot whizzing about st mawe's harbour like a jet ski whilst feeding in light where all you could see was ripples and spray

the white-arsed knights are nudged along- just planning out on computah where to put them, birds not painted yet- difficult to arrange right as green sand tend to keep just a few yards apart and do their own thing: comments welcome

bonus feature is the top half of a hare's head i saw sticking out of the grass this afternoon

 

[Lykos]

only :t:

friendly greetings Gaby

 

[timwootton]

Marvellous. The whole thing - marvellous.
One fat 1st year creamy-headed lapwing dozing right foreground?

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

Lovely work Ed

 

[nickderry]

this is going to be special indeed; can't wait to see it painted up!

 

[solitaryVSong]

this is going to be special indeed; can't wait to see it painted up!

Yes. It will be interesting to see as you develop from this great start.

 

[Woody]

Chuffin' great! And get that hare, as is, into a frame!

Mike

 

[Strandman]

currently a White-winged Black Tern in Hyde Park which made for a rather surreal workaday twitch- so small, white, clean, so not London

unfortunately the zoom is stuck on my blackberry so the artfully composed photo lacks a little detail, but there it is on its favourite post: biro sketch done peeking through the same two balustrades

 

[colleenc]

painting is really coming along now...and that hare worthy of a Picasso of rabbits!

 

[nickderry]

what a great place to see a tern, I love these sort of natural juxtapositions.

 

[username]

That WWBtern photo would make a good basis for a painting methinks....[juxtaposition and all that]......:cat:

 

[timwootton]

Fine drawing - super bird.

 

[solitaryVSong]

Fine drawing - super bird.

Yep. Lovely, lively sketch.

 

[Woody]

Very nice Ed. I went to see it today, it wasn't tough to pick it out from the way it was dancing about over the water. It didn't stop for over an hour and I couldn't take my eyes off of it!

Mike

 

[Strandman]

Hello all. I had my eye via birdguides on a juv Red-necked Grebe up the road for the last coupla weeks and finally got 30 mins with it yesterday- page of sketches done on the spot and well- I just don't know how the pro sketchers on here get so much detail so right: by the time I have registered one detail that I want to catch like the bulgy outline where throat joins bill, everything else is moved and forgotten

I did convert the bottom right sketch into something more worked out when I got home, attached as second: not very pretty and a touch of the plesiosaur around the neck, but it is what the bird looked like

the green sand painting from above is on hold whilst I gather the patience to tackle the birds- meantimes a "big bale buzzard" is brewing (bale diameter 140cm, buzzard length 50 cm so hopefully I am not to far off, but probably bird is a touch big)

 

[colleenc]

pretty snazzy bird Ed....looks like you did just fine to me. and I like what you made of the sketch too, quite strong and graphic.

 

[timwootton]

Them bales is nice, mate.
Super-duper red-necked grebe - no problems that I can see regarding retention of visual info onto paper. Loverly.

 

[nickderry]

been too long since I last saw a red-neck - 10 years at least! Superb work here, and the buzzard looks like it's going to be another fine piece.

 

[solitaryVSong]

Finally getting around to comment on these fine sketches. For me the very first one is just tops! Only you may know what you missed. For the rest of us they look like you captured everything.

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

Great sketches Ed