House Sparrow - a look over the shoulder

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Gorgeous work Paul, now you know you are going to need to do a tutorial on painting a branch as complicated as this don't you!

Posted by Ros Patterson on Fri 31 May 00:13:07

Another phantastic masterpiece.

Posted by Pat Harrison on Fri 31 May 06:16:16

He, he, thank you Ros, thing is it would be a loooong tutorial! :-) Thank you Pat!

Posted by Paul Hopkinson on Fri 31 May 06:58:29

Absolutely brilliant

Posted by karyl Quigley on Fri 31 May 08:19:16

Absolutely brilliant

Posted by karyl Quigley on Fri 31 May 08:19:17

Incredible detail, beautiful painting

Posted by Glennis Weston on Fri 31 May 09:09:00

Excellent work Paul, he's a winner!

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 31 May 10:52:57

Amazing detail and beautifully painted.

Posted by Dawn Broughton on Fri 31 May 12:01:52

Beautiful! I love the expression on his face and the tree branch is incredible.

Posted by Christine Davies on Fri 31 May 12:29:58

Thank you Karl, Glennis, Carole, Dawn and Christine for you lovely words!

Posted by Paul Hopkinson on Fri 31 May 16:53:17

Brilliant as always, nice to view your work again, love the detail as always, doing a few experiments at the moment with pencil media. Looking to get a similar reproduction.

Posted by Peter Nelson on Sat 01 Jun 05:56:51

Thank you Kirstie, I try to do a basic 3 or 4 step WIP on my FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/thedevonartistpaul for many of my paintings incuding this one. Please click on 'Like' on the page so you get to see any future paintings I do on there. Hi Peter, I've not used CP's for many years but I do like them and the way you can layer/burnish the colours. I have a set of Prismacolors which are a set of American CP's and nice to work with. I will have to get them out again when time allows! :-)

Posted by Paul Hopkinson on Sat 01 Jun 07:58:37

Paul thanks so much for your great comment on my startled baby pastel portrait, you can probably imagine how tricky that one was to draw with that really difficult facial expression! Her grandmother loves it thankfully! Sorry about that little rant at you on Robert Mees ridiculous multiple posting attempt, like he could get away with that in light of all our re cent problems with mp's on this site, he realised and dealt with it straight away of course, if only they had all been as prompt to sort themselves out!

Posted by Ros Patterson on Mon 03 Jun 23:19:18

That's ok not a problem Ros. :-)

Posted by Paul Hopkinson on Tue 04 Jun 07:00:36

What can I say - just brilliant.

Posted by Thea Cable on Thu 06 Jun 21:01:14

Hang on Studio Wall

01/04/2015

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Well it's been a few weeks since I picked up a paint brush so I thought it was about time I did! Due to the detail in the wood this one has taken much longer to paint, so all in all around 12 hours. The woodwork was one of my favourite parts of this painting, very enjoyable working with a myriad of colours! I'm glad I chose this photo, I really do like the look over the shoulder stance! House Sparrow - Watercolour/Acrylic on SAA 300gsm NOT paper - 227mm x 167mm http://www.devonartist.co.uk/

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