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Inspiration From Artists Wk 160 Featuring Artists : Edward Aston Cannell and John Naylor

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Tony Auffret

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Not my thing at all, but felt I ought to look at his work - if only to support Paul's long term and often solo efforts to keep this, a favourite thread, alive.  Although I wouldn't hang it on my wall, this pastel of a European Bee-Eater does avoid the sentimentality that many animal portraits engender.
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Linda Wilson

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I’m with Sylvia and Jenny on this - the animals are magnificent.  I especially like the avocets.

Jenny Harris

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Christine Rogan

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Lovely animal portraits- but particularly like the rhino!

Sylvia Evans

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Lovely wildlife paintings….is that a wicked Sparrowhawk? I could be wrong…they  breakfast o my blue tits, I also he a garden full of badgers ,Sam enjoys their droppings.   Smashing choice. 

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Jenny Harris

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Don’t think it’s a Sparrowhawk, Sylvia, believe they have yellow eyes. Maybe a Buzzard or Peregrine Falcon?  Perhaps someone else will recognise it.  We also get the occasional Sparrowhawk taking our lovely bluetits, but not often thankfully.  Hope Sam has a strong stomach!

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I think it’s a Peregrine Falcon , Buzzards are a heavier more brown bird  similar to the Red Kite we have a lot of both around here.  Next weeks featuring arts are Peter Barrett and Ralph Thompson , a change to the program. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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That's a peregrine falcon - the female, or a juvenile.  We have them around here, too.  And yesterday, I saw a fantastic kestrel, the male bird, the chestnut colour of his back caught in the wintry sunshine.  Cheers you up to see them, as does the work of this artist.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Jumping back to the thread, and then about a bit: I'm not surprised that Nina Hamnett was abandoned as a choice - her passion was devoted to her alcohol fuelled lifestyle, rather than into her art; and her range was limited.  She had rather a sad life.  On the "sentimentality/chocolate box" front - I don't actually mind a bit of sentiment, provided it isn't actively untruthful - doesn't present an idealized view of a world that wasn't ideal at all.  I don't think the animal portraits are sentimental particularly, but they - some of them anyway - could adorn a chocolate box or calendar, without much difficulty.  So could Thorburn's, which some of the above approach - I had a collection of Thorburns: more books I sold to finance a house move!  Wish I still had them..... I only pick this up because I was once accused of painting chocolate-box pictures myself - most landscape painters probably have been, and that's what I (still) mostly do: I think the accusation was nonsense, but am a bit sensitive on the subject, and while I'm conscious of a certain cross-over of genres, and Mr Naylor might get a bit near to the dividing line - if you look at that rhino drawing, at the wild boar (even if he is in a slightly comic pose) at the otters, and particularly at that Jack Russell - poised to leap into action, the muscles almost visibly quivering - and the avocets: that's not sentimentality, that's representing the essence of those animals and capturing their spirit.   By the way Sylvia - that's a Black Rhino - how do I know?  Spent many holidays in my youth at Uncle Vic's house - he was a senior keeper at Bristol Zoo, and I was exposed to all sorts of critters: the White Rhino has a much broader snout.  

Sylvia Evans

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I must look through my sketch books ,somewhere I have a sketch I did in Kenya of a white Rhino,   I’m sure you are correct re tge Perigrine Falcon Robert…the painting gives no indication of size and I seem to have a plethora of sparrow hawks which of course are much smaller…. Possibly a female Merlin ? 

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Too big for a Merlin - not that you can really tell the scale from the painting, but the peregrine is a bulkier bird.  Today's edition of Nature Notes, courtesy of Sylv and Robert...

Sylvia Evans

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lol we are changing the nature of the forum…( no pun intended)   I consulted a local Birdie guy…. He did say he wasn’t certain.   I gauged its size from the foliage around it…hey ho …any more views?
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