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Lapwing
Been drawing all afternoon but alas I can't share it, so here's an '20 min lapwing' instead. The relief of sloshing watercolour around after hours of black & white... priceless!
📷Richard Chandler posted by @GrahamFAppleton
@CobbinSteve1 @bto @ryeharbour_NR
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Hellebore
After years of 'not being bothered' by hellebores, I find myself increasingly taken with the dark ones, at least.
This was going to be in pen & ink but the colours of the original seduced me.☺️
@CobbinSteve1 @The_RHS #gardening #flowers
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Wallcreeper
Looking rather grumpy, but probably 'that's just how I look' ...
From a lovely photo by @BirdinginChina with thanks.
@CobbinSteve1 #BirdsSeenIn2022
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Gannet
‘Don’t mess with me!’
From a ph by @mostlyotters with thanks
@CobbinSteve1 @SAOCousins @holnicoteNH @Mayfieldbirder @PearyHelen @drkierachapman
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Salisbury cathedral
Playing with paint and ink - based on two lovely photographs by @johnorganist and @nickcpapadop, with thanks.
@CobbinSteve1 @ExploreChurches @SalisburyCath
@Portaspeciosa #cathedral
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Coots
A few inky studies of coots - a bird I really love for their querky movements, beautiful plumage and feisty characters. Oh and those feet... 😁
@CobbinSteve1 @_BTO @WWTworldwide @RSPBEngland
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St Swithins, Ashmanhaugh
Hastily done, sitting on what turned out to be rather damp grass, under a tree. But the blackbirds fluted in the bushes around me and the sun shone and the pleasure was in the painting.☺️
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Ladies' slipper orchids
Such beautiful flowers - but as footwear I've long contended that they don't look very comfortable!
📷 @SLeguil with thanks.
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Bremilham church
A quick sketch from a few days ago. Head too sore to paint, today.
From one of @johnevigar’s photos? Sorry lost the shot now.
@CobbinSteve1 @SAOCousins @holnicoteNH @andykaitken et al.
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#41 Coots
Another couple of quick sketches for my gallery of 'Birds at @ryeharbour_NR'. I'm fond of coots with their blue-black-white plumage; they usually make me smile.
But I've rarely felt less like smiling than right now.
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