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August has arrived! Still strange and uncertain times ahead but our love of creating painting , drawing etc keeps mind, body and soul together. Hope you can join us and post a sketch in any medium each day if you can ( or whenever when you feel you are able). It’s a great way to meet other forum members and we are a friendly bunch. Newbies welcome. Right then start sketching!
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Thanks for setting this up Gillian. Thank heavens its a bit cooler here today. I was watching a demo on drawing fruit and thought it may be a good bit of practice and fun. This is a slice of Magenta. It started out a slice of lime but I made a mistake and plonked a big blob of magenta on the paper so I carried on just for fun.
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Thank you Gillian, I do enjoy this. Hilary, that made me laugh, it’s a great looking piece of fruit, who cares what colour it is!
Mine is in keeping with the cat sketches, I started this little sketch of my cat Sweepie while she slept but didn’t finish it so yesterday, 14 years after she passed, it is completed from memory.
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Very Nice Gillian , I cannot get on with oil pastel despite trying lots of times. Yes I do paint steam engines , there are some paintings and sketches of the I’m my gallery. I was looking a a layout for one today , but as it contains five plus engines I’m not to sure about it at the moment, but have a couple of others I’m thinking about.
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Good one Stephen and welcome. I’ve been thinking about negative space in sketching these heads where the detail reduces as they get further away. Doodling really!
Regarding The discussion on oil pastels, I have a lovely boxful received as a Christmas present a few years ago, and have tried them several times without success! Just not my thing, but some use them beautifully.
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Hi Stephen welcome! The aubergine is very good! Hi Tessa wish my doodles turned out like that. You such a loose style which I like, I am too tight due to the Parkinson’s but I get there in the end , these daily sketches are really helping though. Read a bit about using oil pastels with acrylic paint, mind you I am not feeling the love for them! Today I have sketched the derelict cave house next door.
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Welcome Stephen, love the aubergine, is that pastel? Back to transport Paul, great tram. Don’t think I’ve ever been on one. Good figure drawing Tessa with the negative shapes. Gillian, I think that is a lovely chrysanthemum. I love oil pastels but usually animals and fruit. 
Mine today is an apple from the garden and cherries from the orchard of imagination in oil pastels to cheer myself up, because I have been battling with oil paints for the last two weeks since I splashed out against my better judgement and I find them so hard!
Mine today is an apple from the garden and cherries from the orchard of imagination in oil pastels to cheer myself up, because I have been battling with oil paints for the last two weeks since I splashed out against my better judgement and I find them so hard!
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Katy think there’s some telepathy going on, this was my sketch from yesterday afternoon.. Great aubergine Stephen. The cave house looks intriguing Gillian. This is one thing I still need to tackle Tessa, people in my drawings. Love the tram Paul reminds me of my grandparents, they always travelled on these.
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Strange coincidence Katy and Hilary! Both good and interesting to compare. Dixie I like your tram. When I was a kid we had trolley buses in Cardiff where I grew up, and I remember that the connection to the electric wire above used to come undone (seemed like quite frequently!) and the conductor used to have to get out and put it back with a long pole. Good memories.
Hilary I love drawing figures and this is a local dog walker (not short of choice here!).
And here’s a slightly later version with a little more detail to complete!
And here’s a slightly later version with a little more detail to complete!
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by Tessa Gwynne