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Well done Denise, is there nothing you can’t turn your hand to? It’s great to have been seeing you develop from when you joined POL! Great likeness of the the young Robert in all his Brillcream glory😉. Lovely sketch Sylvia ! Also there are some very talented. Grand children on here!! My daughter has a love of lighthouses and we were talking about Start Point, Sanday, Orkney, which is very unusual as it’s has vertical stripes and the only one in Scotland painted that way. This is today’s sketch in charcoal.
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by Gillian Cooke
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Gosh, you're busy already. Rather plump squirrel (too much overindulgence at Christmas?) and very good rendition of an unusual lighthouse, Gillian. Glad some have turned to portraits, as I'm trying to get some more practice at sketching before I put paint to panel. Working on another portrait of my wife, pencil first, charcoal then paint. Have a feeling I'm going to have to find some better paper for charcoal - keep getting dark patches that won't erase - preferably a smoother surface. So far....
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That’s a lovely lighthouse Gillian and thanks for the information about it I like having these odd bits of knowledge.
Your portrait work is looking really good Ron. Two work in progress sketches , the horses are in my sketchbook that in doing for my two youngest granddaughter’s. The other for a painting of a Brixham sailing trawler offshore, there are a few still sailing as pleasure boats .
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Well Gillian, we have a Start Point with a lighthouse here in Devon, but it isn’t painted like yours. I thought that Trinity house had standardised the painting style of all our lighthouses, but obviously not. The Devon Start Point, is quite close to Brixham, the source of Paul’s trawler. Love your wind swept dog Gillian. Perhaps you could do with some trees for shelter. I will have to look for some pics of lighthouses. I feel a sketch coming on.
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Nice work Gillian , poor wee dog look blown away nearly. Like the light house Bari. A very quick watercolour sketch, my son who is 50 going on 6 at time was talking to my six year old granddaughter, he is the sort that will not even let a child win a game . The chatters was I can do this quicker than you etc, Evie then said my grandad can do a painting in mmm ten minute, this of course was a challenge my son would not let go, go on then get him to do one . This is the result in nine minutes forty five seconds, timed my son to the split second , very wet in wet . Comment was it’s not a real painting is it’s more of a blur it dose t really count , to be told by the six year old “ bet you can’t do it , and it would be rubbish if you did” , shocked as she is normally a very polite young lady
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Great variety of sketches, the dog captures the moment Gillian, I like that very much. My sketch, well, it's just a concept really, putting in some basic shapes of what I might work into a more detailed drawing and then maybe, something to paint. I will probably do a few, then decide what to work on in more detail and then decide if it's worth painting.