timwootton
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Feck!
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nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
haha, I think the 'blue' period is due to the lack of sunlight with the camera, much like Alan's wonderfully blue white paper. I'm very much in the yellow and purple patch as usual, though it's more lemon and payne's grey at the moment. I'm working on a scribble on a red bit of card I nicked from the recycling at work - a male black redstart on the roof next to the classroom was too much of a distraction from a not very talkative student.
RussB
Going for Gold
Oh, what a feast for the eyes! I'm slowly realising that there is soooo much more to life than a 3B and paper - a thing called colour. Trouble is, black and white does it for me just as much as the most vivid colours. When you see work like this, though, I'm beginning to have second thoughts.
If I become another victim of job cuts, I'll at least have something to fill my days!
Russ
If I become another victim of job cuts, I'll at least have something to fill my days!
Russ
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
black and white are the most vivid colours together, no two 'colours' could be further from each other - give into that little voice called temptation and have a go, trying new things is never a waste of time!
solitaryVSong
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Back for another longer look and I tend to like the last one best too. But that's sort of like saying I'd prefer $10 million dollars to $11,$12,$13 or $14. They're all so out of this world that the choice is really unimportant.
As usual they mix bird and environment, color, light, movement, shape and of course space. i do really think it is bird art, or any art, at its finest. Just incredibly rich.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
Popped out to Pagney this morning hoping for a bit of migration - wishful thinking! Not a single duck of any sort on the pool - not even a mallard and the only wader was a snipe that flew over. I suppose it's when it gets dull like that that you spend more time sketching the common birds, so I started on the coots and a GC grebe. One pair of grebes has got week-old young, which is a surprise this late in the year. Then we have a 'classic' chiffchaff, deep olivey all over, a big eye with bags under it and a bum-end that doesn't stop moving. The blue tit was added as an afterthought when it appeared later. The excitement appeared in the form of a black woodpecker (sorry Ads) that flew over just as I'd unzipped my flies to take a leak, then a marsh harrier, then sod all, so I came home!
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JTMB
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Wonderful, Nick! So much sense of the birds captured with so little (apparent) effort - more incentive for me to keep at it.
I concluded a long time ago that birds and other critters have a 'detect-a-leak' biological sensor in situations like yours. When I was doing a lot of serious bird photography from a blind, there were numerous situations where the target (or any target) was nowhere to be seen. Until right at the point where a rest break was, uhh, in process - and of course in swooped the bird in perfect conditions with the unattended camera and tripod effectively miles away.
Back to sketching...the photography background poses a problem for me, in that the goal of most of the photography was the perfect 'portrait' shot of the target species. I have a lot to learn from you folks here about composing and executing a piece with the bird as a focal point, but within an appropriate setting, like your second piece here.
I concluded a long time ago that birds and other critters have a 'detect-a-leak' biological sensor in situations like yours. When I was doing a lot of serious bird photography from a blind, there were numerous situations where the target (or any target) was nowhere to be seen. Until right at the point where a rest break was, uhh, in process - and of course in swooped the bird in perfect conditions with the unattended camera and tripod effectively miles away.
Back to sketching...the photography background poses a problem for me, in that the goal of most of the photography was the perfect 'portrait' shot of the target species. I have a lot to learn from you folks here about composing and executing a piece with the bird as a focal point, but within an appropriate setting, like your second piece here.
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timwootton
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A case of one pecker attracting another, I suppose.
I've got a major problem with the coot/grebe image - just how do you manage to do this, exactly??? Phenom!
I've got a major problem with the coot/grebe image - just how do you manage to do this, exactly??? Phenom!
birdboybowley
Well-known member.....apparently so ;)
At least now I know how to attract them!! :-O
Great flight sketch of it too - had to rub it in didn't ya??
solitaryVSong
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Brimming with life as usual and making me wish I'd made better use of my own time out this morning! No sketches to show for it, even with a briefly seen Northern Waterthrush.
birdpotter
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I'm glad you said it first Tim.
Man, Nick, every time I look at your work I smile through all of it. It's all just so subtle, with great flow/movement. LOVE it all!!
peter mathios
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The coots are amazing... so spontaneous and so true to life. Great stuff!
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