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The Tufted Coquette (2)
I was so disgusted with my first effort that I've done another today. Still less than 100% happy with it but it is an improvement and gets me painting again.The initial drawing using a Pentel 07 2B...
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Life Drawing at Bath Artists Studios Week Two
Yesterday was the second week of this 10 week course. The weather was better, we were in the schoolroom and both the heating and electricity were working. Compared to last week it was a large...
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Avon Valley Artists - Thursday 23 January
I've missed a couple of recent sessions due to the virus that's been hounding me. However this Thursday I made it and the subject was `A Winter Scene' - quite broad based. There was a good attendance...
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Blue Jays
This is the painting I did in response to the AVA subject `A Winter Scene'. It enabled me to kill two birds (no pun intended) with one stone. I looked up birds in winter and came up with two photos of...
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New Palette
As I've already indicated the `Blue Jays' study (see separate piece) stemmed from the AVA weekly subject `Winter Scene'. I'm hooked on birds so combined the two. It also coincided with my revised...
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Life Drawing at Bath Artists Studios - Week Three
The third session of this course took place yesterday. It was another shocking day weatherwise - very wet - so I wasn't in a great mood when I arrived, having walked the last two hundred yards in the...
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Cakes and Sweets
This was the subject at Avon Valley Artists last Thursday. Another decent attendance with 17 present. Several, including me, had done some preparatory work. In my case the work involved the drawing and...
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The European Crested Tit
This is the latest subject, no actually another has just been posted the Grey Heron, for the `Paint Colorful Birds For Fun' community on Facebook.12" x 9" Paper (?)It struck me I was painting many of...
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Geronimo!
Geronimo was the famous or infamous Chiricahua Apache leader who terrorized the South-West of America and large tracts of Northern Mexico during the mid to late period of the 19th century. His band...
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Watercolour Brushes Pt.2 Sables
"the very best and most expensive watercolour brushes are made from the winter tail hairs of Mustela Sibirica, called in the art world a Kolinsky, but sometimes referred to as a Siberian Mountain...
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Life Drawing Bath Artists Studios - Week 4
Monday was the fourth session of this course. We arrived to discover that the model had cried off at short notice due to illness, so a subject planned for a later session was substituted. This was...
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Animals - Avon Valley Artists - Thursday 6th February
The subject last Thursday was `Animals'. There was a good attendance with over twenty members present. As I had a hearing aid `MOT' at 9.45am I thought I might be quite late but in the event made it by...
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Jaguar
Normally I'd post this in the previous AVA post but as It has created quite a lot of interest, both at the meeting and subsequently when I posted on Facebook, decided to cover it separately in slightly...
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Drawing from Life - Week 5
Last Monday was the 5th session of this ten-week course. I was in two minds whether to post it as the week 4 post seems to have gone down like a lead balloon, with no comments and not that many reads....
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Latest Paintings - Three Different Subjects.
I mentioned in the Jaguar piece that I'd also drawn a Snow Leopard but then made a mess of the painting, so scrapped it at an early stage. My usual reaction to disaster is to go straight back in so the...
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Tropical Fruit
This was the subject at Thursday's AVA session. Attendance was on the light side with only thirteen present, possibly due to grandparenting duties as it was half-term.. Below are a number of the...
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Sofia Helin
Sofia Helin is the star of the Nordic drama/thriller `The Bridge'. The two series have been a dramatic hit on TV's BBC4 and a third one is planned. It is one of the several Foreign subtitled dramas...
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Machinery and Transport
This was the subject at Avon Valley Artists last Thursday numbers down a little at fourteen.Thin on the groundYvonne Harry . Yvonne was not too happy with this but I think it very interesting with it's...
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More Paintings
Not mine I might add (I wish) but a selection of those I've gathered, like and admire. Some of the artists I know others not. What continues to surprise me is the wonderful number of asian, eastern and...
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Life Drawing - Bath Artists Studios Weeks 6 & 7
My travails at Baths Artists Studios in the first five sessions were as nothing compared to the most recent ones. I was tempted to consign this report to the dustbin, but will instead don sackcloth...
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