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gareth thomas

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and a couple more...
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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First, welcome.  Second - I can see the value of the Bargue course: I haven't taken it myself, maybe I feel I've got a bit too old to do courses - or more likely, I'm just lazy.  It's interesting though to see the good it's done you, and to our original contributor who started this thread.  

Sylvia Evans

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Such observation and such very competent work...I am full of admire. BUT maybe it's because I am very old and very set in my ways , it would bore me silly .   I'm not sure what the benifit it is of doing these.  Stick me in a woodland , put me on a beach ..,pick a flower from my garden . And let me create what I see.   Old expression Horses for courses... I must be the old nag that kicks.  Oh, hi, welcome .

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Marjorie Firth

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Excellent work from Gareth. Like Sylvia it wouldn’t be for me. I’ve learned to be quite disciplined when I draw but I prefer it to be in front of me, first hand. Observation is key if you want to produce something exact. My granddaughter ( 7) was looking at one of my paintings which had a puddle of water on a surface. She said “ how can you do water?”. I said that it’s all about looking very carefully….I was amazed she believed it was water, she traced her finger around it.
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Marjorie Firth

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Gareth, do you do any portraits as a result of the course? It would be lovely to see some.

gareth thomas

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No I have my hands full much of the time & tend to do art in splurges when I get inspired - maybe one day I could do a trip to Florence and get trained properly - or maybe do a proper atelier course online. Anyway speaking of Portraiture I have a little business putting many  drawing & art courses into print on Amazon - I guess we are not allowed to advertise here but I am restoring the Julien & Josephine Ducollete courses & just found hundreds of them at fairly good resolution. I already published some of these but now there are many more so I am thinking to open a book & poster store. I am keen to do these 2 courses next to master portrait drawing. You really need A3 posters to draw from.

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Heres another famous one

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Marjorie Firth

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Thanks for answering and posting these Gareth.

gareth thomas

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I just found the more advanced ones I had on my flickr account so...

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