and Nick, it was a seal with a stiffie!
Cheers, it looks like I'm following the Busby/Ennion/Mccallum route instead of the Jonsson ( surely must be the most phenomenal powers of observation on earth ) route. Still, the question remains, and still gnaws away at me: How mportant is knowledge of the bird (ie how tertials and covets fit together and which bit goes where) compared to powers of observation? How important is drawing what I see compared to what I know of the subject? Or does it really matter ? That's three questions! Whilst you guys ponder this I'm off to China for a couple of week ( no I'm not loaded, I'm helping out on a tour ) but I will whip it out (the sketchbook I mean) if I get the oppo.
Cheers, talk to you in a bit
Russ
I think he's in foreign climes, Phil - no doubt he'll be back soon with juicy sketches from far away lands.Russ?
Sorry to bump you up...
How're things going my dear friend?
Good, I hope?
phil
some terrific sketches here, and quite right, art should always take first priority over photogtaphs (although username is rather good at combining the two!) I have had a few goes at photography, but it takes ages to get good at it, and even once you are as good as you'll ever be someone will have a better lens, and hundreds of people will have photographs exactly the same! That's why art rocks, we all do it in a unique way and we are way more exclusive than the photographers (prob about 20 people on the art thread but hundreds on the photography threads and in the gallery.)
in musical terms, photographers are like Pop music, which at the moment consists of JLS and Taylor Swift, good but all to samey. We artists are the hard-core, anarchist rockers of the BF world, original and 'keepin it real!!'
Retro!:eek!:
and, to add some sanity, I agree with phil that these look quite a lot like Lars Jonsson, though much better, of course!
sorry, think I did woffle on a bit! Art is all about passion though, which a brilliant sketch of an Ibisbill evokes a great deal of!:t: