As if I didn't have better things to do... I have been in the house all day waiting for an engineer to turn up to connect us to fibre optic Ultra Broadband. He failed to show. When I rang the company to find out what was happening they did not know 'but he may just be running late, or had to move you to a later time-slot...' Frustrating! In this day and age engineers are always on the end of a mobile phone surely? So while that remains a mystery I felt I had to salvage something useful for the day and some sketchbook work was the answer. (Housework? That could wait).
As the weather has become colder I have been feeding the birds on the patio and feeders daily and this handsome cock pheasant has become a regular morning visitor. As he is easily startled I grabbed my camera and took a series of photos the other day, through the window, before he took flight. Across a double spread of my latest A4 sketchbook (Daler Rowney 150g/m acid free cartridge paper) I worked up three studies based on some of these photos. I opted to keep things simple and just used a 2B Derwent Graphic pencil.
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| Fat Freddie, 2B pencil in sketchbook |
Oh, Fat Freddie - yes that's what we have named him. He's not really fat, just in beautiful plummage and good condition.
Have you birds in the garden close enough to photograph through a window?
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