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Latest Birds
The following are the latest birds I've painted for the `Paint Colorful Birds for Fun' community on Facebook. They are basically cameos completed in a short time so I'm not suggesting they are good....
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Life Drawing - Bath Artists Studios - Week 8
This was the 8th session of this 10 week course, and things not going well I decided to ask Saied for clarification on a few things prior to starting. I almost wish I hadn't. My first thought was...
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Avon Valley Artists - Two Sessions
As I've been rather slow to cover last weeks session I've decided to combine that with yesterday. There have been some difficulties which I'll relate but here goes.Last week the subject was `Lakes...
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Life Drawing - Bath Artists Studios - Week 9
This is going to be a very difficult piece for me to write. I related last week how I had received a dressing down, rather demeaning in some ways, and half-jokingly said `he must have read my blog',...
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Self Portrait
I'm quite interested in self portraits and have attempted one or two in the past. So far they have reflected me in a rather dour (or sour) mood and this one is similar - perhaps showing the strain of...
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Birds & Butterflies
This was the subject at the Avon Valley Artist session on Thursday. I think the number attending was fourteen. We are missing Yvonne at the moment which is always a loss and a few other regulars were...
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Birds & Butterflies (2)
The subject for `Paint Colorful Birds' this week was the Song Thrush, one of my favourite birds. Unfortunately there has been a large decline in numbers in the UK in recent years. In my previous home...
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More Paintings I like
Just to lighten the mood while I await the next onslaught from `anonymous' (just joking) here is another selection of paintings that caught my attention. I'm sure some may not be to everyones taste...
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Wreck 0r Wrack & Ruin
This was the subject at Thursdays AVA session. Only ten members were present due to various reasons, including dislike of the subject. Some of the weekly subjects don't appeal to me but I`ve never...
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New Watercolours from Winsor & Newton
Winsor & Newton, perhaps prompted by the rise of Daniel Smith, have introduced what they are calling a limited edition `Desert ' collection of 6 new colours, all single pigments with two I've not...
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Rainbow of Colours
This was the subject at last weeks Avon Valley Artists session. I scratched my head over this one but eventually decided to paint a parrot or is it a macaw? The others all had different ideas. Only...
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Spring
This was the subject at today's AVA session. Unfortunately I have a heavy cold so decided not to inflict it on my fellow artists. Yesterday I painted this - again a flexible interpretation of the...
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Zebra Finches
This was last weeks subject on the `Paint Colorful Birds for Fun' community on Facebook. I've only seen these little birds in captivity but they seem to live in groups so after the initial bird on the...
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The Ceylon Magpie
I'm afraid you'll have to put up with another bird.! I missed the AVA session yesterday as I'm still suffering from a cold and accompanying cough, although this seems at last to be moderating. This is...
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Catching Up
Due to illness I've missed the last two AVA sessions but determined to go this week, although still not 100%. The subject was ...actually there was no subject with members being able to complete...
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Avon Valley Artists - Flowers
Flowers was the subject last Thursday and an interesting set of paintings resulted. Where possible I've put the name of the artist but can't remember all of them.Yvonne Harry - part finishedPat...
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Latest Paintings
These are some of my more recent efforts. Since moving painting has become more difficult in that I have had other things interfering, and so I've not been painting so often.12" x 9" Fontenay not...
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Water Gatherer
This is from a black and white - more sepia - photograph from the wonderful Facebook resource for old photos of American Indians `Moses on the Mesa'.18" x 12" Fabriano Artistico, actually on the...
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Stormy Day
This was the penultimate session before the official programme ends. I won't be able to attend next week so this was my final one. During the summer the hall remains available and members do their own...
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Watercolour Brushes Pt 3 - Mops
Following up the previous brush posts, one on synthetics the other sables, comes the third instalment - Mops. Although I have a number they are not my brush of choice. I've used them only sparingly so...
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