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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Second, I learned from the modern master of bird painting, Ray Harris Ching. He's a New Zealander who lives in England and most wildlife artists I know consider him god. I certainly do, but unfortunately theres not much of his work on the net. He's a stubborn old bugger and won't look at computers. I've offered to make him a website but no, I may just ignore him one day and do it anyway, it’s a damn shame his stuff isn't better known. Certainly he taught me that a bird on a stick is stupid without some meaning or context (although when you're illustrating a field guide there's not much choice!). I know Ray would see this and tell me it's crap, the wing coverts are all wrong and have no form... he'd be right!
If you're precious and protective of your work you won't last and of course the great benefit of this is that when Ray says he likes something you know he likes it, and every single flaw he pointed out was something I knew wasn't right but thought I'd gotten away with! He has an amazing eye, just flawless, and It shows in his unparalleled work.
Thanks for looking!