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

Robert Jones, Napa

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I went home last night - now there IS a funny thing ...... For those of you with long memories..... Now then: I was painting yesterday - I know some of you don't believe I ever paint anything because I've posted so rarely lately, but take my word for it, I do - and kept going probably longer than I should have done; noticed a piece of very dodgy perspective and thought I'd better stop, go to bed, and I can put that right tomorrow. Well tomorrow has - as you will observe - dawned; I went back to the board: and I can't see what's wrong with the perspective now. So here's the question - did my eyes play tricks last night when I was tired; or are they playing me false today? Has this ever happened to you? And as a general lesson to be drawn - I like to be instructive - there's probably much to be said for stopping painting when you're fagged out, taking a long rest, even sleeping on it: otherwise, you're likely to do a lot more harm than good.
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Tao Barry

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I think you are right , stop while you are ahead. and go back tomorrow see the painting in a new light. I have been painting all afternoon. now I am going to sit back and relax with my favourite painter YOU ALL KNOW WHO ... .... I will be totally relaxed when he has finished LOL

Adele Elgood

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Can't think who you mean Tao!!!!! Back to Robert's puzzle. Have you ever heard the Fairy Tale of the Shoemaker's elves. When he went to bed, the elves would finish the shoes he had been working on that day. Now I am not fanciful but I do believe there is a little artistic elf living in his cupboard, who nips out at night whilst Robert is in the land of Nod and corrects any mistakes he thinks he has made.😉😉😉😉😉

Pat Harrison

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Robert, next time you´ll have to take a photo for the before and after. ;) It proves that as with most things it helps to sleep on it.

Michael Robinson

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Robert, you sure you hadn't been taking too much of the falling down water? Maybe that's why things looked wrong:crazy::hehe:

Kay Devlin

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A similar thing happens to me too at times. I either can't see what's right in front of me (I think I've finished when I haven't, or vice versa), or I think my painting is terrible, or amazing ... or what happens often is I will look at lines and convince myself they aren't straight, or parallel. It usually happens when I have been working on it for too long, or if I've started thinking about something else. I find looking at it differently - either in a mirror, or taking a photo and viewing it on a TV or on a phone - helps me see it in a different way and I can usually tell what is wrong (or isn't).