Welcome to Nick's dining room table. (3 Viewers)

[Lykos]

they are all excellent....but I love the second :clap:

greetings Gaby

 

[colleenc]

stunning Nick, the crows over the top for me

 

[Apodemus]

All amazing but my favourite is the bittern - a very powerful image.

 

[Woody]

I hate you Nick Derry!

Oh those rooks are a thing of great beauty...

Mike

 

[timwootton]

Indeed those rooks are, both in life, and when portrayed in all their flank-touseled, mantle-fuffled nuptual glory as these. Dynamic design.

 

[Strandman]

Indeed those rooks are, both in life, and when portrayed in all their flank-touseled, mantle-fuffled nuptual glory as these. Dynamic design.

up with them rooks- and taking such a dynamic pic from a round-the-corner bird is a mark of the master

 

[nickderry]

interesting the rooks are the popular piece (I'm happy with it - a half-hour's expressive piece after painting the hair on a bumblebee). It's generally hated by my frog, and viewed with indifference by my other friends - good enough for me - that's definitely one chosen for the SWLA this year!

 

[colleenc]

interesting the rooks are the popular piece (I'm happy with it - a half-hour's expressive piece after painting the hair on a bumblebee). It's generally hated by my frog, and viewed with indifference by my other friends - good enough for me - that's definitely one chosen for the SWLA this year!

Right choice IMO...maybe it takes a more developed eye to see the beauty of it and the extraordinary composition pulled off here

 

[clive2604]

a lovely set of images nick,such very clever and dynamic compositions!

 

[username]

I always feel better after a 'derry-fix' of illustrations...

That rook design deserves to be on fine china porcelain...

amazing atmosphere contained within that gos pic and the bitterns a vision to behold...:cat:

Incredible stuff...:t:

 

[nickderry]

has anyone noticed the bottom left hand quarter of the bittern pic? (I like riddles!)

 

[Apodemus]

The owl face? I wasn't sure whether it was there or not.

(Hoping it IS there now!)

 

[nickderry]

is not an owl face - the clue is perhaps what the bittern is doing.

What I've done looks very obvious to me, but seems a lot more subtle than I thought.

 

[Woody]

What I saw was an echo of the bittern's plumage in a Warrenesque way but there is a second wing shape which helps with the movement.

Mike

 

[Apodemus]

OK - second go!

Now I see a shadow image of a large raptor - has it made the bittern fly?

 

[Apodemus]

Either way, it's very intriguing, as are those tree shapes in the top right.

 

[Lykos]

it`s your own shadow

greetings Gaby

 

[Woody]

it`s your own shadow

greetings Gaby

Oh yeah!

Mike

 

[turkish van]

is not an owl face - the clue is perhaps what the bittern is doing.

What I've done looks very obvious to me, but seems a lot more subtle than I thought.

My first ever post in the art forum I think, though I follow many of the threads and all the work leaves me in wonder.... Nick these last four are amazing, I wish I could see them in real life!

Anyway, I also am intrigued by the bittern riddle, do I see the outline of a man? Though he does seem to have a strange horn on his head and long braided hair!

edit: doh too slow!

 

[nickderry]

bingo! It's the outline of a Monsieur Rolland who was showing me a place where he saw Jack Snipes a few days before. This bittern jumped out of a patch of reeds that we'd been staring at for ages. As for the sod snipes - we saw 4 - but none of the buggers stayed on the ground in view - I was so close to achieving my dream - looking at a patch of grass, I noticed a feather and some poo at my feet, thinking 'one's been here at least' the git jumped up out of nothing and off!