From Tim Wootton's Studio (1 Viewer)

[solitaryVSong]

No rust that I can see. The shags are great.

 

[timwootton]

Playing around with an off-cut piece of mounting board with thoughts of winter very much to the fore as yet another day of snow, sleet and hail puts us firmly in that season still.
This is the third outing for the landing drake l-t ducks, including the pencil sketch for the bird report. I was going to draw in conte crayon but couldn't find one so I had to resort to the marker pen.

 

[colleenc]

what a pleasure to open your thread this AM, and find the landing L-t what ever that is, just bursting off the page. Of the sketches, which no matter the rust are superb, the flight and the resting 3 just made me see how far I've yet to go...and pretty sure I'll never get there( but I'm likely to die trying)

 

[RussB]

Some absolute superb stuff here, Timmy. Honestly, I'm a bit neurotic about stopping sketching for just a few days! Have you been inspired by Jonsson's 'Birds' recently? The flight sketches are a real joy and look like his fulmar pen sketches from the Faroes when 'he wor a lad' and the eiders look like they've been painted over in Gotland. I've checked out your work on earler postings and could spot the Jonsson influence streight away, or was it because that too was an eider? Whatever, this is classy stuff.

Russ

 

[nickderry]

this last picture is an absolute pleasure to gaze across, there is a look of orgasmic joy on that oldsquaw's face and for a very happy minute I forgot all the crap paperwork and stupid beauracracy that living in France bring. Brimming with frenetic life - this keeps all the strong forms and lines that can so easily be lost when working in just colour.

 

[buzzard12]

this last picture is an absolute pleasure to gaze across, there is a look of orgasmic joy on that oldsquaw's face and for a very happy minute I forgot all the crap paperwork and stupid beauracracy that living in France bring. Brimming with frenetic life - this keeps all the strong forms and lines that can so easily be lost when working in just colour.

As Nick points out brimming with life, love this piece Tim. More than shades of Busby and Ennion in here, either artist would be happy with this surely. Prescribes so much behaviour of the three species depicted and keeps the eye moving seemlessly, a triumph....

 

[ed keeble]

looks like all round acclaim for this one- few things more evocative than some calling splashing LTDs

 

[solitaryVSong]

looks like all round acclaim for this one- few things more evocative than some calling splashing LTDs

Yes indeed! It is just bursting with life and character. Obviously I'm not as much an expert on Busby and Ennion as most of you but still the comparison seems apt. I'd bet this would bring a smile to their faces.

 

[jacquot]

Very nice, and definitely wintery. Amazing the weather you have...

 

[sfrissell]

Great "Mob Scene" Tim! My experience with Long-tailed Ducks amounts to two individuals several years apart. Your "Mob" picture is very full of life. Good to see new work from you again. Hope you are not under the ash cloud and that "snow" you mentioned really is snow.

Sid

 

[timwootton]

Looks like a change was as good as a rest, then? Thanks for the support!

Continuing in a vein; I started the seals and hoodie pic yesterday afternoon and slapped a bit more colour and marker pen on it today and then decided the guillemots, razors and a fulmar deserved similar treatment (besides the regular flexibility you folks afford me, please also excuse the tiny fulmar - clearly a runt which would have been culled in any normal ecosystem!!!). I think a new version of this piece is called for, at some stage . . .

 

[nickderry]

I really like this change of 'style' - well it's entirely your style, but it's all new at the same time and very exciting, and well I'm loving it. I'm sure we'll forgive you the runt fulmar (if it were me I'd just ink in its wingtips and turn it into a funny kittiwake) scale in a scene is one of the reasons I turned to wildlife cubism - don't have to bother so much with it!

Anyway, I need to know the ingredients of your hoodie and seals pic, I think I see burnt sienna in there, but what else is helping create that magic?

Nick - thoroughly bored painting a 'proper' watercolour for a commission. Wanting to get the pens out and blow any chance of being paid for it!

 

[nickderry]

ps Orkney seems so much more exciting than here!

 

[timwootton]

Many thanks Nick - I'm not sure where I'm going with these at all, but I like the way that using a marker pen takes away any pretence at trying to make the image 'real' and so I suppose that releases me from a few self-imposed constraints regarding execution.

Palette is; burnt sienna, alazarin crimson, ultramarine blue and yellow ochre - and black marker pen. All these are of a similar size -approx 30"x20" - ish. The support is off-cut white mounting board in all cases.

 

[ed keeble]

Looks like a change was as good as a rest, then? Thanks for the support!

Continuing in a vein; I started the seals and hoodie pic yesterday afternoon and slapped a bit more colour and marker pen on it today and then decided the guillemots, razors and a fulmar deserved similar treatment (besides the regular flexibility you folks afford me, please also excuse the tiny fulmar - clearly a runt which would have been culled in any normal ecosystem!!!). I think a new version of this piece is called for, at some stage . . .

What brill: you could do a lot worse than (i.e. given half a chance I would...) just scan in the fulmar pic and resize the runt fulmar in photoshop: that way you get closure on it quicktime and can crack on...

 

[nickderry]

wish I hadn't asked for the ingedients now, the exact same colours I use and would have used here! (Though my half pan of crimson is rock solid and takes a lot of working to get any paint out of it!) I think it's just the Wootton magic working here. Effing brilliant!

 

[colleenc]

These have a whole new feel to them, leaning towards, but not too far, illustration. They are a pleasure to see, bright, lively, intricate tapestries of movement and life.

 

[timwootton]

Ed - Nice suggestion and I see the process could get me there. I think I can see a slightly better painting in here somewhere, and I think I need to eek it out, somehow . . .

Ha! swap you as much 'Wootton-magic' as you want fof just a milligram of Derryness - anytime.

Yes I know what you mean Colleen - maybe it's that I'm looking for the character in the birds and it's coming a bit close to characature? - either way it's a good point. I'm trying very hard to not make them 'as seen in the field' and more 'as seen in the field and then re-interpreted in the studio'.

 

[solitaryVSong]

Bursting with life, and color, once again. Sometimes being away from what you'd like to be doing just leads to a real outflow of energy once you can resume it. This really is a different style to me. In some ways I miss the old one. But I also love the vivacity of this. And I'm sure that pretty soon we'll see them both melded in a brand new way!

 

[buzzard12]

Exciting times on the Wooton thread! Loving these pieces, quickly drawn and really benifiting from it I feel. The Hoodies and Seals is already a classic in my mind, fantastic use of colour throughout the piece. I can tell you are enjoying these very much, sure you might as well bang out a few more