From Tim Wootton's Studio (1 Viewer)

[Woody]

Sorry for the delay, Mike. If you can't read the text I can type a version (although there's nothing particularly enlightening in there).
Suffice to say this is the closest I've ever been to an otter in the wild - and for over 5 minutes of thrilling viewing.

Fanbl**dytastic! That sounds like the very reason we get out as much as possible, there's just no telling what you'll see or when.

And the text is enlightening in the extreem, I get a real sense of your excitement from it.

Mike

 

[peter mathios]

The peregrines are incredible!!!! What a page

 

[timwootton]

Ha - well the otter drawings are really no great shakes, but the experience will live long.
Just got back in from the Yesnaby Cliffs (ooohhhh - I like them in the day, but in the evening they take n an even greater majesty) to see Andy Murray drag himself up by the boolaces to fnally overcome an incredibly tenacious and talented Swiss - Stan the Man! What really struck me was how dark it is down in bonny Londonshire at this early hour - I'm just popping back out to the pier to enjoy a last gulp of vod and ton!
Ha - wait til winter comes . . . . .

 

[Woody]

Watched that too Tim, he had to work hard for it didn't he! I sat in the garden afterwards (in the dark) with vod and coke, plenty of ice, watching a pipistrelle flitting about under the silver birch.

Edge of Empire tales again, it's really a different wee world in the remote (and light) North!

Mike

 

[Apodemus]

What really struck me was how dark it is down in bonny Londonshire at this early hour - . . . . .

Exactly what I was thinking last night - beautiful light evening over Loch Linnhe, barely dusk at at all and, in front of it, scenes of a black night sky and fireworks on the telly - seemed unreal somehow. I also saw an otter last night, but nothing like as close a view as yours!

Mike

 

[deborah4]

It all goes without saying Tim - 2479:2489 :clap: (you can have a smiley instead )

 

[ed keeble]

Watched that too Tim, he had to work hard for it didn't he! I sat in the garden afterwards (in the dark) with vod and coke, plenty of ice, watching a pipistrelle flitting about under the silver birch.

Edge of Empire tales again, it's really a different wee world in the remote (and light) North!

Mike

Seems like we were all musing the lightness of the sky, lateness of the hour and tenacity of the Murray last night- I found myself out at 9:55PM last night and to my great surprise saw a Sparrowhawk hunting- sat on a post, then apparently deliberately crashing into the top of a small bush with wings out, to see if it could dislodge anything roosting, then along to next bush and same technique.

 

[timwootton]

Just been spending time whilst I'm stuck in the gallery working up some sketches into the next phase of progress.

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

Just sat here with a smile on my face. Superb Tim

 

[Woody]

Just sat here with a smile on my face. Superb Tim

Ditto that!

Mike

 

[colleenc]

nobody does it better Tim.....

would you explain what you mean by " working up some sketches into the next phase of progress." is this the next phase, or the sketch, or color added to a field sketch ......would you mind explaining your working process a bit...

 

[buzzard12]

Wonderful set of watercolours, what to say....these have made my evening Tim...

 

[Andrew H]

Mind blowing................

 

[jomo]

Frame them, frame them, frame them! I sincerely wish I could accomplish with the medium what you do so effortlessly. Light, shadow, form -- a few brush strokes, and it's all just there!

 

[nickderry]

Just been spending time whilst I'm stuck in the gallery working up some sketches into the next phase of progress.

you make it sound as though you'd rather have done other things with your time!

dammit - I really need to get those brushes out again before they rot away!

 

[deborah4]

Very nice selection of paintings Tim. Ooh to have the freedom to spend time in a studio painting proper and make something of the scrappy field sketches in my collection!

 

[Apodemus]

Absolutely stunning, yet again.

Have you ever thought of making a book out of these images, rather than just selling them as individual pieces? I'm sure there's potential there.

Mike

 

[birdboybowley]

Nice Tim, very nice. The SWLA dunno what they're missin' out on. Skuas are fab!

 

[timwootton]

RSPB contract is officially over - reports to do plus follow-up visits to determine breeding success (or otherwise) of terns and a.skuas - so I'm celebrating by starting this large canvas I've been promising myself for a few weeks now.
Very, very early stages of ragging in some rough hues to cover the white. I'll take a brush to it after dinner.
. . . just been re-assessing the drawing and filling in a few slightly more meaningful tones. . . .

 

[Woody]

Simply love your stack paintings Tim. I hope we are going to be treated to more proper work now that the RSPB work's over?

Mike