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January 2012
$25.08
Calendars Info

DilettantO

Feathered and Unfettered: Birds in the Wild, as Nature intended. by

A selection of my bird artworks, digitally created for the WWF Stamp Collection

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About DilettantO

I have been a freelance illustrator for over 35 years. For the last 10 or so, I have been working almost exclusively digitally, using Corel Painter x V on PC. I do NOT manipulate photographs to create my paintings. I use photos for reference purposes only.
Most of my work is for the WWF Stamp Collection.

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parrot, lorikeets, egret, lovebirds, africa grey, swan goose, crane, birds

Comments

  • TextureoftheSin
    TextureoftheSinover 2 years ago

    Stunning work and a great cause to support!

  • ~ Ademac
    ~ Ademacover 2 years ago

    Not bad for a Western Australian………..lololol
    Seriously it is work like yours that raises the bar and we are all grateful.

  • DilettantO
    DilettantOover 2 years ago

    Thanks heaps! Let’s hope people pick up on my ‘sales pitch’! I’m actually going to buy a few myself, coz I honestly think they will make great gifts. Most people like nice colorful calendars and birds are always popular. I almost put a bird of prey in but decided to stick with the pretty ones for now. I might do a Birds of Prey one later, when I have enough pix.

  • Patricia Anne McCarty-Tamayo
    Patricia Anne ...over 2 years ago

    fan freakin tastic as always bro NICE collection

  • DilettantO
    DilettantOover 2 years ago

    Thanks everyone! Might try and squeeze a couple more calendars in before the end of the year.

  • Warren. A. Williams
    Warren. A. Wil...over 2 years ago

    Stunning calendar love the selection.

  • DilettantO
    DilettantOover 2 years ago

    Thanks again Warren. I’ll certainly be making more calendars. So pleased with the way it worked out. Thanks RB!!! You made it so easy!

  • ~ Ademac
    ~ Ademacover 2 years ago

    The calenders are excellent quality…………….I inflicted a few of mine and other RB members last Christmas and they have worked rather well………..tell you the day and everything. ;-)

  • I don’t need reminding of the days passing…I just look at the pictures.
    Good to hear the quality is good though. I’m amazed it cost us nothing to produce these things. How else could you do this kind of stuff…for free..??? Okay, now shatter all my illusions and tell me I’ve got that all wrong and it’ll cost me shitloads and I shall have to mortgage the house ( which belongs to my partner anyway) to pay the costs of all this stuff…

    – DilettantO

  • ~ Ademac
    ~ Ademacover 2 years ago

    No cost…….

    ……well there is when you buy them from RB but without your personal mark up I believe they are resonably priced. As I said the quality is excellent, great card, good reproduction, spiral binding works great and they are plenty big enough.

  • Phew! So the house is safe then… Of course, I expect to pay for the end result, but I still think it’s amazing that there are no ‘up front’ costs. If you say the quality is excellent, that’s good enough for me.
    Where has RB been all my life ( or the last 10 years of it anyway?)
    I’ll stick an order in and see what rocks up. I keep telling people ‘If these don’t sell, then nothing of mine will’. I have got rather jaded about selling my work online. I have a website of my WWF stuff ( currently having work done on it ) and I have prints on offer there, but over 3 or maybe 4 years I haven’t had a SINGLE enquiry, let alone a sale. Still no sales on RB either, but it’s only been about 4 days, not 4 years so there’s a chance yet…Cheers O

    – DilettantO

  • crackedpot
    crackedpotover 2 years ago

    A truly wonderful collection. The birds of prey sounds pretty interesting to me too! Hard to comprehend that you’ve had no sales from your website – that will surely change from now on!

  • Thank you! Yeah, I can’t understand why I’ve had no luck on the site either, but as you say, hopefully RB will change all that. Sooooooooo…how many copies are you buying??? LOL

    – DilettantO