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Mick Saunders

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Fooling around with some of my old photos of the Dales, may be some of Somerset/Devon in the mix, too:-)https://www.painters-online.co.uk/Gallery/Mick-Saunders-Dales-Lane/_ga73722_pg1BestMick

Mick Saunders

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Yep, it happens all the time, I pick up a pastel or mix a fresh colour, turn back to the painting - why have I got this nice mix of oil Naples yellow and French ultramarine, hanging off my brush, or why do I have this yellow ochre, tint one pastel in my hand.  I deal with it by guessing an appropriate, or not, place for the colour to go, and then just firing in with it.bestMick
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Robert Jones, Napa

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So do I; but I'm never quite sure if that's what I intended to do in the first place.....  <div> </div><div>Maybe it's like touch-typing: if I were more disciplined, and laid my colours out in a pre-determined fashion (which, to be honest, I don't) I'd just dip the brush in the right colour and apply it without looking away from the canvas. </div><div> </div><div>And on the other hand - I bet I'd miss the mix I'd been aiming for.......</div>

Michael Robinson

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not just with painting. I go in the garage to get something and wonder what I am doing there.. come back in the house and remember what it was a thing I do for a straight line..I know oilies use a mall stick ,and I should have used a straight brush or ruler any way this is it

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Sylvia Evans

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Boiled spuds the other day, then threw them into a bowl of soapy water.......couldn't find my phone charger there it was hiding in the recycle bin covered in peelings. Painting...wots that.?????

Mick Saunders

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Many's the time I've mad a cup of coffee, put the coffee in the fridge and taken the milk into the livingroom.bestMick
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Sarah Bottjer

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I put the washing powder in the fridge and put the orange juice in the powder drawer of the washing machine :} That was twenty odd years ago so must have a good few marbles left. Thankfully. Painting wise? Well I have sat on a wet painting....It improved it no end. LOL!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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So you're all saying there's a pattern of sheer senility here, eh?  Well, I would refute this vigorously, had I not, just a short while ago, poured boiling water into the tea-caddy rather than into the kettle .....