“Are they keeping still for you?” asks a passing dog-walker.
“Whenever you draw a duck, if you start when it’s facing that way, it turns the other way.”
Down at the duck pond in Thornes Park and what I really need to draw are Canada geese and swans but there are none about so I draw these balletic gulls and preening ducks.
All the work that I’ve been doing on animated cartoons makes me more aware of character and movement in birds, particularly ducks, but I realise that black-headed gulls and town pigeons could equally well have a cartoon to themselves.