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[nickderry]

and the rest...........

 

[timwootton]

Absolutely joyful - each mark dances with life and energy. Pure genius, kid.

 

[buzzard12]

Remarkable. That Hoopoe is a bit special.

What do you say about work of such consistently high quality, not to mention integrety. My hats off to you yet again...

 

[colleenc]

what a week !:t: the egret takes my heart, and how did you do those cobwebs?

 

[nickderry]

what a week !:t: the egret takes my heart, and how did you do those cobwebs?

a sharp white crayon (and maybe a white chinagraph marker too)

 

[orniodesigns]

They are all great! But heron is my favourite.

 

[mattybohan]

Top shelf work!

 

[Andrew H]

Another Derry Feast...Dont you ever sleep...?

 

[ed keeble]

we are so lucky to see these doings as they issue forth

returning after just a few days away- and you can really see the palette shifting from the greens of late spring c 14 days ago to now the first browns of early autumn

 

[username]

Staggering stuff Nick....!

I adore that hoopoe exploding with color...[the flattened crest reminds me of veins on a petal]....amazing...:t:

The design on that first wood sand pic is something else too....!

ps...just looking at that latest lot has certainly woken me up on a gloomy monday morning in the shires]...and so i thank you very much...:cat:

 

[solitaryVSong]

Absolutely joyful - each mark dances with life and energy. Pure genius, kid.

Have to agree with Tim and the others. I was writing to point out that I particularly liked the way you added the spider web in the last one. But as I viewed each again I just had to be impressed by them all. Joyful and seemingly unself-conscious. As my old Latin teacher used to say: "You're cooking with gas on the front burner," the height of a compliment from him.

 

[buzzard12]

a sharp white crayon (and maybe a white chinagraph marker too)

Been back in to view these again, perhaps even better the second time. It strikes me that the webs have amazing graphic and compositional potential.

One of the best qualities of your work is that it really gets the mind ticking
:t:

 

[phil baber]

I'm growing a goatee in honour of these impression/expressionistic wonders.

It's pretty much a dollop of art in the real sense.

Thinking all this may well be very extraordinary on many right levels...

 

[Jonathan Williams]

some awful administrative nightmares all round then - what a bunch of w******! I finally managed to pay the tax office a visit today to get some answers to my many questions. It seems that it is a hell of a lot simpler than any information I've previously found on the subject makes it out to be. I packed in my 'auto-entrepreneur' business, but I can keep my business ID number and produce bills, I simply have to declare at the end of the year what I've earned along with my usual taxes. Bingo, very happy now. The difference now is I'm not paying anything towards retirement or my state healthcare with my paintings, but as I already pay enough for these with my teaching job, that's not a problem.


so all is sorted - until the next problem they find for me!

Ahhhh, the french tax system. I've been taxed on my earnings in the UK that I already paid tax on. Just awaiting the thump of the 2010 bill through the door any day now.......

Gulp.

 

[nickderry]

Ahhhh, the french tax system. I've been taxed on my earnings in the UK that I already paid tax on. Just awaiting the thump of the 2010 bill through the door any day now.......

Gulp.

Gotta love the French eh!

 

[nickderry]

Once again have dropped off the first page - just shows how superbly active this forum is now, I remember the old days when it seemed there were just five or six threads regularly updated. Such a wealth of inspiration :t:

Some stuff that has been waiting for my attention - a ring ouzel from the mountains, the looser version is my favourite - the older detailed version is lacking in composition and colour. A black woodepcker jut before the rain (Seb doesn't like this one - it's too 'dark', not sure how to make a black woodepcker in a forest under heavy clouds bright but hey ho. Then we have a colony of house martins and a night heron, seen on my travels for work (yes, sometimes it is worth it!)

 

[nickderry]

and from my local patch recently, a red-backed shrike tearing up a dragonfly and a beautiful broad-billed sandpiper. I was surprised how much the head pattern, round head, heavy bill, snipe-like fringes and all reminded me of a jack snipe (not thay I've seen one of those as well as this. The italian name translates as Jack Snipe Sandpiper - and that will do for its new English name!

To use up the paint leftover in the palette, I scribbled some grebes without faces.

 

[username]

Love the colour combo in that shrike n hawker pic Nick....the eyes of the dragon and the crown of the lanius...etc...

Extraordinary yellow wag and sandpiper pic...superb....as always...:t:

 

[timwootton]

Each recent posting could easily be mounted and toured as an exhibition of modern wildlife painting, such is the quality and depth of the content. Those martins are beautiful beyond description; those two staring youngsters toppermost have all the grumpy-cuteness of the real bird and I'm so chuffed to see the yellow wags sharing the canvas with the piper - delightfully composed and rich in colour. My personal pick is the shrike dismantling that emperor - some elegant touches which seem so off the cuff; the way the highlighted nape of the bird is allowed to float free from the underlying structure of the bird and the casual empty space of unadulterated paper, creates as strong a statement as any amount of impasto slappery. Genius!

 

[ed keeble]

and from my local patch recently, a red-backed shrike tearing up a dragonfly and a beautiful broad-billed sandpiper. I was surprised how much the head pattern, round head, heavy bill, snipe-like fringes and all reminded me of a jack snipe (not thay I've seen one of those as well as this. The italian name translates as Jack Snipe Sandpiper - and that will do for its new English name!

gorgeous shrike with subtle twist of head completely in shadow, illuminated rear

as an aside on the b-billed sand, you are not alone in your thoughts: I heard/read somewhere that the bird in Notts last year was intially mis-ID as Jack Snipe