New field studies (1 Viewer)

[Woody]

It's the quality of the observation combined with the highest technical ability which makes your fieldwork so outstandingly brilliant.

Eloquently and succinctly put, I agree wholeheartedly.

Mike

 

[spizaetos]

I feel very flattered from your comments, thanks a lot!
Summer is finally back, and I used the chance to visit the zoo , hoping to complete a half-finished Golden eagle watercolour..
Here it is....

 

[colonelboris]

Nice depth in the plumage there!

 

[timwootton]

Just incredible. There's so much perfectly observed detail here. Form and structure, texture . . . and light . . . and life - amazing.

 

[colleenc]

Wonderful. You must draw bigger crowds in the zoo than the birds themselves. If you sat in a cage somewhere sketching, I would certainly pay to get in!

yes me too, achingly beautiful, stop you in your tracks, work

 

[ARTHUR BISHOP]

a great Goldie Paschalis

 

[spizaetos]

One more study from the zoo, a Peregrine study today morning..

Paschalis

 

[tbbilbo]

Love these two recent raptor paintings, Paschalis. Please continue contributing your gifts for our enjoyment.

 

[solitaryVSong]

Particularly like the Peregrine. It has the look of a real individual, observed while he seemed deep in thought.

 

[birdboybowley]

Nice stuff Pas! He does look exceedingly moody though....

 

[Woody]

Always a pleasure seeing anything by your hand Paschalis.

Mike

 

[spizaetos]

Many apologies for my long absence , it was because of my regular Illustration work ...tight deadlines!
This time I tried my luck working with acrylics in the field, not easy at all...

 

[timwootton]

Brilliant! Also - must have missed the peregrine somehow - wonderfully brooding look, captured expertly. There's a slightly less-finished feel to this piece which I like very much indeed. Excellent work - genius.

 

[buzzard12]

Particularly like the Peregrine. It has the look of a real individual, observed while he seemed deep in thought.

Yep, stunning drawing Pascallis, love the way the feathers on the breast have been drawn and shaded. There is a fantastic understanding of depth here, as there is with all your work. Beautiful work...

 

[solitaryVSong]

There is a very nice sense of weight and heft to this new one that I think must come from years of experience drawing animals, esp. mammals. Like Timi I enjoy the looser quality of the brushwork as well. I enjoy the light as well but most of all I have to say it's that wonderful sense of weight.

 

[spizaetos]

Thank you all for your kindness! After two months of absence, I managed to spend the whole morning today at the Nymphenburg park in Munich following a tip of a good friend about a roosting Tawny owl ...
I couldn`t wait longer and I didn`t regret it!
It gave me great views looking through the scope..

Attached, the finished study, Bic pen as usual...

Paschalis

 

[timwootton]

Monumental drawing. Unbelievable talent, mate.

 

[ed keeble]

Monumental drawing. Unbelievable talent, mate.

beautiful

It has a lovely traditional almost Tunnicliffe feel to it too- I thinks it's the round lines of bird, the surrounding cavity: no modernist jaggy intrusions

 

[nickderry]

unbelievable, wow, no, there isn't a word for it. Almost better than the real thing!

 

[mark richards]

frigging fantastic!!!!