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double post :/

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Looks really good Denise looking forward to seeing it finished. I don’t do portraits ax I’m always afraid of offending people, but I thought a selfie wax in order. Pencils sketch, watercolour and a little touch up with a pen .
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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That be a white rhino - bet you don't know how I can tell: hint - its colour has nothing to do with it.  A selfie, mind - I was under the impression I'd been corresponding with a wart-hog, not a rhinoceros, all this time.  You deceived us!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Well Robert I was told to never show your true colours just in case , but I was never told what the in case was.  Now if memory serves me right my cousins have a pointed lip , and they think I’m odd . Hope your had a good day yesterday .
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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You are correct, my rhino-horny friend: the white rhino's name comes from the Afrikaans 'breit', prounounced 'brrite', or broad (if you believe this old book I've got).  Breit became white, and the broad part refers to the animals lip.   Breit is also a German word - isn't that nice?  So your rhino could be Afrikaans, Dutch, or German - or even Austrian.   Or at a pinch, German-Swiss: though I believe they pronounce the word as something like 'brrait', so perhaps we can dismiss that one.   There, I hope we've all learned something from this: perhaps especially - never ask Jones to explain anything. 
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Splendid work, Dixie. I had to smile at the mention of 'self-portrait' We learn, also, by explanation Mr. Jones. carry on the good work.
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|Here's the parsnips. Not as plump as they look in the pad painting, never mind. They are sharing paper with some berries I painted earlier in the year.

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Not sure woody nightshade should creep in with your parsnips...isnt night shade Belladonna?  Like both of them.
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:) AHH HA! A regular Miss Marple you are, Sylvia. There are both woody nightshade and black nightshade growing about the place, I've never seen the deadly atropa belladonna in the flesh, so to speak. I do think the berries I have painted have come from the black nightshade, at the time of picking there were only a few dead leaves and fruits. Glad to say they have long gone and had no chance of creeping into the Xmas dinner . . .   
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Some great sketches everyone. I have been so busy recently I haven’t had time to get round to sketching despite setting up the thread! I shall get something done today! 

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My sketch today...tangerines in Inktense in my concertina book.

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Good enough to eat Sylvia! I have just put pen to paper in my sketchbook and came up with this line and wash of the Round Kirk built by Viking Earl Hakon 
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