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Gillian Cooke

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You are on a roll the Bill !the blues work! Sylvia you can’t go wrong with those autumnal colours!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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A couple of sketch’s from my rough book , it get full of all sorts of ideas some only a few scruffy lines , The first one was drawn as my granddaughter was “ singing whose  pigs are these” a song her mother drove me mad with one summer many years ago. The other is a idea for a possible painting, I like to sketch out ideas for future painting as I will totally forget it if I don’t.
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Gillian Cooke

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Great sketches Paul . I bet the girls love the pig and piglets! The boat will be an interesting subject for a watercolour hope it comes to fruition! Not exactly a sketch but I did this pen drawing yesterday 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Gillian that a lovely sketch you have done. 
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xxBillxx xxDowniexx

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This is fine work from you both, with good drawing skills on display. The boat would make a great watercolour or pastel and the pen drawing could be fleshed out with some colours too. Were these done en plein air?
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Mine certainly wasn’t as I am unable to work outside at the moment and unfortunately the boat no longer exists. 
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xxBillxx xxDowniexx

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I'd like to do more painting outside, but this is Scotland and it's usually too cold and windy. In fact before I drew Criffel on the Solway cast (famous for its light), the nearest I'd gotten to it was sitting at the back door drawing a fig tree next to the house.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I do take a small sketch book out with me but don’t always use it , particularly when people are around as the get nervous I think and wonder what your up too. I did do more when I was volunteering as a Ranger for the National Trust and spent hours in the woodlands. 
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Gillian Cooke

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Unfortunately not en plein air Bill. From a photo taken in Spain near my little cave house where I lived until recently. Was there ten years but returned to Orkney for health reasons. Still have the house though . I occasionally sketch out and about but living in Orkney presents some windy wet and cold challenges for working outside!! 
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xxBillxx xxDowniexx

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I do take a small sketch book out with me but don’t always use it , particularly when people are around as the get nervous I think and wonder what your up too. I did do more when I was volunteering as a Ranger for the National Trust and spent hours in the woodlands. 
Paul  (Dixie) Dean on 10/02/2023 21:55:09
Yes, that can be a problem when you're out sketching. The NT job sounds like the perfect opportunity for a sketching spree!
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xxBillxx xxDowniexx

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Unfortunately not en plein air Bill. From a photo taken in Spain near my little cave house where I lived until recently. Was there ten years but returned to Orkney for health reasons. Still have the house though . I occasionally sketch out and about but living in Orkney presents some windy wet and cold challenges for working outside!! 
Gillian Cooke on 10/02/2023 22:44:43
You lived in a cave house? How interesting! Do you have any photos you could post?

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Oh Paul....just step backwards onto one of their toes if they are being a pain...otherwise I find people don't really notice you if you tuck up in a corner ,. I once had a pile of little black kids pushing and shoving to look see...Africa somewhere.  Just gave them paper and crayons and tell them to get on with it.  
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