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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phil baber" data-source="post: 1830735" data-attributes="member: 71208">Untitled...Unfinished...Been commenting on the wonderful Art Forum for some time.But I haven't shown anything of my own. Which is a bit ridiculous.Tim, Colleen, and Liam? Guess I'd better bare my soul then? I've been involved in art/illustration all my life. But birds taught me how to draw. From an early age I wanted to draw birds. But I ended up becoming a cartoonist. Now I return to wanting to draw and paint birds. Although I have had a bit published relating to this.One thing I do love is sketching a bird and annotating those sketches, so I will always know it. In these days of camera-led birding, these skills are being lost.Tim's wonderful Arctic Skuas in the BBC Wildlife comp re-inspired me. And Liam's capture of a Collared Dove in mid-display made me realise something."Paint what you see, not what you know." (A Lars Jonsson quote...)There is something in this. And I see it in so many great artists here.Then RussB comes back from his far-east tour with those Ibisbills?He has drawn them as he has got to know them. And the results are honest and heart-warming.I don't want this thread to be an expose of my work. Rather I would like to encourage input from everyone. Experienced or not. Because right now I'm scared of showing my stuff to the world. And, am sure many others are too.Sometimes fear will kill a budding artist, and stop their progression to where they ought to be.Let this thread then be me showing how I am overcoming my fear, as an encouragement to all...I'll start with a page from my notes. From May '94.I'd been to a job interview in the Graphics Dept at WWT Slimbridge, Glos, UK. A very nice girl offered to give me a lift home. But, as we were leaving, we were invited back to see a Temminck's Stint. My first ever.This attachment will give something away about me. I hope to post more random stuff to give you a bigger picture of what I do.In the meantime, check the links below...I hope this thread turns out okay, and also that you'll all have some joy in visiting it.But, most of all? I hope friendships will be forged, and help and advice will be available to all who need it!With very best wishes,Happy Birding!phil</blockquote>

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