From Tim Wootton's Studio (2 Viewers)

[nickderry]

oooh, nice! I can hear those crazy noises they make. Going to be a fantastic lively piece.

 

[Woody]

You gotta love the laconic expression on the sheep! This is looking like one of your very best.

Mike

 

[timwootton]

I think this one is now just about completed.
Brings back springtime memories of doing bird surveys, trying to count the lawings as I put them up off their territories - on some sites I'd have up to 40-odd birds in the air at once (and they have an irritating habit of not staying still).
Acrylic on canvas, 30"x24".

 

[Woody]

It's gorgeous and I absolutely love it! I've never been to the northern isles but this atmospheric painting has transported me there. Top notch work Tim.

Mike

 

[nickderry]

peeeeeeeeeeeee-wit peeeeeeeeeeeeee dsjkhdsjkhch sjkjkj fjfj hhfhfhdiqkd (can't transcibe the noise they do). I don't know where to look first, which is supposed to be a bad thing according to art as taught - but when in front of wheeling lappys, you just don't know where to look first, they're so full of action - thumbs up!

 

[AStevenson]

Tim you make it look so easy peasie! Reminds me of spring and wader surveys, but do you get p-ed off by dive-bombing kleepy oiks after a while like I do?

Excellent selection of flight shapes, and the stretchin' shakin' one bottom right is spot on.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[desgreene]

Brilliantly captured Tim. You can almost hear it!

 

[timwootton]

Cheers folks - client is happy too, so that pleases me!!
Andrew - What's a kleepy oik? - I don't think we use that term in Ork. We have skarfies, whaaps and Tammie Nories, to name but three, but I've never heard of the kleepy oik.

 

[buzzard12]

Major success I'd say Tim. Full of atmosphere and if you listen carefully you can indeed hear them. You have captured a very special scene in a very special painting, congrats Tim. Love it.

 

[timwootton]

Having completed the last commissions thought I'd celebrate with a quickie. However, Sally wasn't remotely interested so I did a painting instead.
I'm fnding myself moving further away from detail and trying to use an absolute minimum of brushmarks, to varying degrees of success.
Acrylic on canvas, 14"x10"

 

[AStevenson]

Tim that'll be the Christmas cards sorted then!

Kleepy oiks - my own term for the rather annoying dive bombing, alarming oystercatchers - nothing against them really, but that 'k-kleep, kleep, kleep' call does go right through you after a while.

Much prefer the mechanical Lapwings, or best of all the trilling rilling dunlin.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[nickderry]

What a beauty! A robin in snow and yet a genuine honest piece of work, I could look at this any day and think - genuine bird, genuine place, and no sodding jingle bells!

and it'll last longer than a quickie!

 

[desgreene]

Agreed. Brilliantly steers around every cliche. Nice one Tim.

 

[Andrew H]

yep, does it for me, and a great card idea to boot.....

 

[timwootton]

Have been toying with developing the small l-e owl painting into something a tad more substantial and painted over the lapwing and sheep canvas to begin with (not the latest one, the one from a few weeks ago).
Then decided the owl wasn't really doing what I remembered it to be, so made a small colour sketch to try and get the feeling back. Both pieces are posted - the large comp i 24"x18" and the sketch 14"x10".

 

[Woody]

Looking good Tim. The colour sketch is a fine piece as is and the larger comp is working well. I prefer the warmer tones of the sketch to the cooler hues in the larger piece but that's just personal and I wasn't there to experience the colour first hand, (obviously!).

Mike

 

[nickderry]

these owls, these owls- you've done so well with these, you've managed to break the picture down into patches to paint, and then the eye puts the whole thing back together, now tell me how you do it! Have no favourite out of the two, the sketch is perhaps less spooky as it has eyes rather than a Modigliani-esque vaccum in its head, but, well, lost for words really!

 

[EliS]

The painting makes me go wow, and the sketch awww. There's something mysterious about the first LEO (and the composition and the colors are brilliant, what an atmosphere you've created!!!), and the LEO in the sketch is simply adorable, there's something awfully appealing about it.

*sigh*

Elina

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

Love the Robin and the Owls jusy magical

 

[mosca]

I like these owls Tim. They almost look timeless in a mythical sort of way. Especially the first one, it almost looks like the owl has been built by the leaves and twigs which surround it. But maybe I'm waxing lyrical too much