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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gropperwinch" data-source="post: 1831104" data-attributes="member: 84897">hey phil, fantastic to see you starting on here! The first two are the best set of field sketches and annotations combined I have ever seen! You ever find many rarities, cos with stuff like this any normal comittee would accept them in a second! Better eveidence than many photographs, I think! The Eider is also a wonderful piece of art, You have a pyschic affinity with those acrylics I believe, do you simply manouevere them into the perfect possible way using the power of your mind? The Eider is perfect, and the background is simply incredible. Good for you for putting plenty of effort into that, it is as much about composition as the bird itself! And don't worry about being absolutely terrified, I've been into drawing since I was about 10, but until the last two months never showed it to anyone bar family! Then I found this wonderful forum, spent a few weeks building up my courage, and finally started showing my work to all the world-class artists on here, including yourself! If this is gong to be about helping other newbies to the forum, would you like me to put on some of my old watercolours/drawing from a few years ago to show how they have changed? Or if you don't want some rather terrible beginners art on this thread I may put them on my own?You have plenty of art, birdy and not, on your website anyway, from which even before now we could all discern you had a great talent for this pursuit of ours! Hope to see some more recent work, plus plenty more golden oldies (golden orioles too while you're at it!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) and this thread looks like one which will take off and be extremely well received!!:t:</blockquote>

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