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Angela Harrison

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Angela Harrison on 28/01/2024 06:37:59
Sketched the cello tape in dispenser with a tin of pencil sharpener, rubber and piece of white chalk! It was an exercise on 'rims'! My hands were a bit shakey as more and more these days I need to grasp a pencil between thumb and index finger as have issues with arthritis at times. Although it is restful drawing still-life objects and need practice with rims! Strange as I sketched some hens yesterday and then created a small collage from the various sketches...entirely different from working in still-life as they were imaginative although strangely enough fun to glue down! Think our grandchildren would like to create a collage sometime, it's like child play! 

Sylvia Evans

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Circles , elipses and round stuff are quite difficult Angela ,you tackled them well. Yes I also have funny hands. This last few days have been the RSPB big bird watch I have done it over about twenty years.  These little fellas are from an other year. Pink biroin my

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Angela Harrison

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Oh Sylvia your birds are delightful and so many different poses too, wonderful! You captured each one as they appeared and what a great experience sketching them in the now! Well done! 

Denise Cat

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Birds are delightful Sylvia. I started painting my drawing but it started to irritate me.  wanted to keep it fairly loose but I've started fiddling and I'm only half way through. I might not carry on and bin it. Spending far too much time on it and it looks a mess.
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Sandra Kennedy

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Lovely birds Sylvia, such a variety and as Angela said so many different poses. Reminds me of my Grandmother teaching me how to print (pre-school I think) and saying that my letter "a" looked like a bird, she added feet and a beak! Nice memory from the distant past.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Denise, if a painting is really starting to irritate you - there's something wrong, and you can't put your finger on it: I don't know what that might be in this case, but never be afraid of binning something if it's just getting on your wick.... life is too short to fight with a painting, unless you can see what ails it and what - even with great difficulty - you could do to pull it around.   The other solution is to take it out of your line of sight; put it away, face to a wall; forget about it, do something else.  Then, maybe days, maybe months later - give it a hard stare: often, an answer will jump out at you.  And if it still doesn't - bury the damn' thing!  It was probably just not meant to be.

Alan Bickley

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Denise… sound advice from Robert!  I can see that you’ve ‘inadvertently’ taken a very detailed approach to this very difficult and complex composition. This could be because you’ve spent a lot of time on the initial drawing, nothing wrong with that of course, but perhaps you’ve been too focused on keeping within the drawing lines! I wonder if there’s too much foreground! I’d crop a good chunk off the bottom, and the perspective isn’t quite right on the main building, certainly at the top of it!  I would have concentrated more on the main point of interest, and kept the buildings either side very loose, just a coloured wash and the bare minimum of detail, very loosely drawn in with a rigger. Can I suggest that you take a close look at the drawings of John Piper, either online, or there are many excellent books available, I’ve got several! Study them in detail and see if you can learn something from his approach to complex building subjects. He often used ink which gave him a certain vibrancy to his work. Don’t despair… I’ve got several interior paintings that I’m currently wrestling with… I’ve put them to one side and will revisit them at a later date!

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Denise Cat

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Robert and Alan, you are both right of course. I will put it aside. I have just had a quick look at John Piper and I will take a closer look at him Alan. I want to keep scenes like this loose and I lost my way with this one.

Alan Bickley

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It’s well worth adding a John Piper book to your library, one of our finest artists! Painting in a loose style, is, in my opinion, far more difficult than painting in a tight, detailed style… 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I just looked at his work Alan it’s superb , I don’t think we have featured him on the Inspiration thread if not would you like to do the intro if I add his name . 

Alan Bickley

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I certainly will do that Paul… pencil me in!
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