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From Tim Wootton's Studio (16 Viewers)
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timwootton
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solitaryVSong
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Nice to see more paintings from you Tim. As Colleen says, 'a real bloke.' Hope your stable duties end soon.
timwootton
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Haven't been in the field for what seems like en eternity - in reality it's probably only seven or eight weeks. The crap weather meant a cessation of construction duties and a chance to sit in a hide (luxury) for a couple of hours. Next-to-no birds and wet, sideways weather, but pure bliss.
It's clear that rust settles quite quickly with this life-drawing lark, but it does feel like a soul-cleansing experience.
It's clear that rust settles quite quickly with this life-drawing lark, but it does feel like a soul-cleansing experience.
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JTMB
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Wonderful to see these, Tim, rust (on your scale anyway!) or not! So much life portrayed with so few marks...always amazing to see.
Your comment about 'sideways weather' brought back a memory. When I was in the master birder certification program a few years back, one of our required field trips was an overnight to the Washington coast for seabirds. Our trip leader (and primary instructor for the program) is an internationally known author and retired professor with a phenomenal reputation. He said it was the worst weather for a field trip he had had in 40 years of birding in the state. Nonetheless, we saw birds and were dealing with the rain, wind and biting cold. Finally, after one particularly chilly spot, we got back in the cars (Dennis, the instructor, was in my car). Dennis turned to the other occupants of the car and said, 'Say, does anyone have any taco chips, potato chips or popcorn?' Someone did, and so Dennis got on the radio to the other cars and said, follow us, we're going to drive down on the beach. (In that area there are a couple miles of beach where cars can be driven.) So we headed down to the beach until we got to a spot that pleased Dennis, whereupon he opened his window and started throwing out a couple of chips. Which of course immediately drew a few seagulls, which eventually became a massive crowd, including many sitting on the hood of the car staring directly at us. Dennis then proceeded to explain the fine points of gonydeal angles and cyclical plumages of the various species as we continued to bait the subjects with chips. Rather an ironic approach with such a reputable leader, we thought, but no one complained because we were dry and warm!
Your comment about 'sideways weather' brought back a memory. When I was in the master birder certification program a few years back, one of our required field trips was an overnight to the Washington coast for seabirds. Our trip leader (and primary instructor for the program) is an internationally known author and retired professor with a phenomenal reputation. He said it was the worst weather for a field trip he had had in 40 years of birding in the state. Nonetheless, we saw birds and were dealing with the rain, wind and biting cold. Finally, after one particularly chilly spot, we got back in the cars (Dennis, the instructor, was in my car). Dennis turned to the other occupants of the car and said, 'Say, does anyone have any taco chips, potato chips or popcorn?' Someone did, and so Dennis got on the radio to the other cars and said, follow us, we're going to drive down on the beach. (In that area there are a couple miles of beach where cars can be driven.) So we headed down to the beach until we got to a spot that pleased Dennis, whereupon he opened his window and started throwing out a couple of chips. Which of course immediately drew a few seagulls, which eventually became a massive crowd, including many sitting on the hood of the car staring directly at us. Dennis then proceeded to explain the fine points of gonydeal angles and cyclical plumages of the various species as we continued to bait the subjects with chips. Rather an ironic approach with such a reputable leader, we thought, but no one complained because we were dry and warm!
solitaryVSong
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Always a pleasure to see Tim!
Paulo Alves
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The landscape watercolour makes one travel to that place. Amazing work Tim.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
getting back out into the field after so long perhaps makes you feel more rusty, but I think the sketches speak for themselves, you were glad to be back out there and even painted a super watercolour of something that, had you been in the field every day for the past seven weeks, would not necessarily have inspired you.
I can't wait to get out in the field again, the only birding I'm doing is in the street and when I have to give lessons in factories and have an hour to wander the fields around.
I can't wait to get out in the field again, the only birding I'm doing is in the street and when I have to give lessons in factories and have an hour to wander the fields around.
ARTHUR BISHOP
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Woody 3. Rust my arse! Mike[/QUOTE said:
timwootton
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Time Gentlemen, Please
Crikey, just checked back on the opening page of this thread and it appears it was almost four years exactly since it rumbled into life. Well, all things come to an end -good, bad or indifferent – and this thread has, I think, provided plenty of all three in equal measure over the years. So, as I alluded to on Nick’s thread, the title; ‘From the Studio’ has been inaccurate for longer than it was applicable, being without a studio for three years now, so it’s time for a change as far as I’m concerned.
Many thanks to all who contributed – and to the many more who just popped in to see what was happening.
Last Orders at the bar B
- consider this thread now closed.
A new one will emerge . . . . soon . . .
Crikey, just checked back on the opening page of this thread and it appears it was almost four years exactly since it rumbled into life. Well, all things come to an end -good, bad or indifferent – and this thread has, I think, provided plenty of all three in equal measure over the years. So, as I alluded to on Nick’s thread, the title; ‘From the Studio’ has been inaccurate for longer than it was applicable, being without a studio for three years now, so it’s time for a change as far as I’m concerned.
Many thanks to all who contributed – and to the many more who just popped in to see what was happening.
Last Orders at the bar B
- consider this thread now closed.A new one will emerge . . . . soon . . .
