Greg Poole – Artist / Illustrator based in Bristol, UK

Greg Poole - Artist / Illustrator based in Bristol, UK

Not far outside St Louis on the road to Langue de Barbarie. The bridge that we stopped at less than 2 days ago. This morning a huge throng of pelicans on the other side of the road, close in. Opting to sketch the wealth of species and the boat on the other side.
The mud with puddles wriggling over it. mass of wading birds. A chequerboard of young ringed plovers. little stint, curlew sandpiper, sanderling, greenshank and grey plover .whimbrel.
the shrine man and koran chanter…..
warm sand cement of houses. big arc of warm mauve/brown mud. pocks of soft blue water filling with the rising tide.
2 men wait in boat for water to rise. sacky canvas patched sail.
Gull billed tern, long tailed cormorants, grey heron, dark reef herons, white egrets, spoonbills, pelicans…

St Louis/Langue de Barbarie

<i></i><br/>rising tide, egrets, waders & pelicans

215‐6897 rising tide, egrets, waders & pelicans

215‐6894 egrets
st louis - langue de barbarie
ink pen
A5 sketchbook

215‐6893 rising tide - egrets, plover & whimbrel
st louis - langue de barbarie
ink pen
A5 sketchbook

215‐6896 waiting for tide to rise, spoonbills & pelican
st louis - langue de barbarie
ink pen
A5 sketchbook

215‐6895 waiting for tide to rise, plover & spoonbills
st louis - langue de barbarie
ink pen
A5 sketchbook

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A really intensive couple of weeks, almost non stop sketching. Now that it is done I can better see that what I was trying to do. Building up a repertoire of what surrounded the chiffchaffs in acacia bushes or wheatears feeding around cattle dung in near desert... so that they could then be placed in a bigger picture that might represent their winter quarters. SENEGAL STUDIO WORK