ARTHUR BISHOP
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Just great Derryness. Love them Nick
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Paulo Alves
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Nice work Nick. Love the wallcreeper.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
dropped off the first page again! Most of the move is done and will hopefully be able to find more time to go birding and do some more painting very soon. Here is a blackbird that I did last night, plus a view of the new studio (still trying to fit everything in).
Got a meeting at lunchtime - I'll be doing some more information panels. Not sure if I'm excited by the prospect or rather daunted by it - it's a lot of work to do!
Got a meeting at lunchtime - I'll be doing some more information panels. Not sure if I'm excited by the prospect or rather daunted by it - it's a lot of work to do!
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Woody
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How to perfectly prescribe a male Blacker by lashing some paint on...
Stunning in it's apparent simplicity..
Sometimes, Derry, old boy, you make me sick....
Wonderful...
Amen
Mike
solitaryVSong
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I'm not sure but I think there's a bit of an optical illusion here. When I first looked I couldn't find a bird for the first few seconds. This really threw me. I did find a profile facing right under the bird's tail but I was sure that wasn't your intent. Then, the way optical illusions do, the bird just popped into the foreground and I saw the bill for the first time. Once you see it you can't help but see the bird. But for some reason my early morning brain just didn't want to find a bird there!!
Either way a striking painting, and maybe a bit more so for the fact that there's just that one little bit of non-black color in it.
Happy to hear that the move is going well. I'm sure you can't wait to get back to birding and painting.
Either way a striking painting, and maybe a bit more so for the fact that there's just that one little bit of non-black color in it.
Happy to hear that the move is going well. I'm sure you can't wait to get back to birding and painting.
timwootton
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I'm often green with envy when I visit this thread, and today is no exception. But not only have you posted an image which has immediately gone into my top-ten of all time in this cunningly crafted portrayal of a cock blackie, but there's a pic of a studio space worthy of the quality of art which will be produced there - wonderful!
Glad the house-move seems to have gone to plan (pony with us now ) but ou may need to make a change of title for the thread, for tis now quite defnitely 'From The Studio' - unless, that is, you'll be dragging the kitchen table in there too . . . in a reversal of fortune, I haven't had a 'studio' for well over three years now . . . .
Glad the house-move seems to have gone to plan (pony with us now
) but ou may need to make a change of title for the thread, for tis now quite defnitely 'From The Studio' - unless, that is, you'll be dragging the kitchen table in there too . . . in a reversal of fortune, I haven't had a 'studio' for well over three years now . . . .
Vectis Birder
Itchy feet
Wonderful talent, sickeningly good!
colleenc
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yes more than a stretch for this mortal...a masterwork of watercolor and subject.....new studio looks like you faux finished the wall and will be a great place to work...
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
the studio is no longer as neat and tidy - and I also have a problem with lighting - we didn't notice that there are no ceiling lights in the studio, so I'm straining my eyes with horrible soft table lamps for the moment.
I've had a commission to produce a load of illustrations for some information panels (shudders), so I've been making a start on some of the birds. Then I decided to have a quick play at a dipper that has been spending the last few weeks on a tiny bit of water in a car park here.
I've had a commission to produce a load of illustrations for some information panels (shudders), so I've been making a start on some of the birds. Then I decided to have a quick play at a dipper that has been spending the last few weeks on a tiny bit of water in a car park here.
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mattybohan
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those are great! A different style than we are used to seeing from you, but still top shelf.
timwootton
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Aye - very smart Nick, and still definitely Derry.
solitaryVSong
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More than anything else I'm impressed by their solidity. I don't think I've ever noticed this so much in your paintings before. Just one more hidden talent!
colleenc
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super Nick love the dipper and the illustrations are solid too.
For light cheapo, try a halogen work light ( 500w) on a tall stand you can get reasonable at a hardware store and bounce it off the ceiling, it will be too hot in summer, but in winter you get dual use of heat and light, and the color balance is good too. Or a photographers light and hood the same way bounced...
For light cheapo, try a halogen work light ( 500w) on a tall stand you can get reasonable at a hardware store and bounce it off the ceiling, it will be too hot in summer, but in winter you get dual use of heat and light, and the color balance is good too. Or a photographers light and hood the same way bounced...
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