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Like your Indian ladies Dixie and the Aircraft. Gillian you’ve been busy! I also don’t like using pastels because of the dusty feel on my hands, though I do like what some people are able to do with them on this site.
Mine today is another quickie from the car while hubby went to look at some plants for sale.
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You are very good a theses quick sketches Tessa. I’ve decided too leave off this aircraft sketch for now, I’m starting to fiddle around with it, I want it to be a watercolour sketch of an aircraft and ground crew, not an aviation picture. Apologies to any aircraft enthusiast or artist for any inaccuracies.
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Hi Gillian and thanks. Yes I mostly have a small sketch book with me, one that fits in my pocket when I’m walking and sometimes a bigger one in the car! I like your cave house, fascinating and I expect mostly different.
Dixie your airplane looks fine. I wouldn’t do much more to it.
It’s been a funny sort of day today, cooking and gardening so for once I’m posting an older sketch rather than nothing! These were done live on a day out to Worcester last summer before their awful flooding. The lady on the left was sitting in the sun looking at the river. This whole area was badly flooded and I remember seeing it on the tv news with swans swimming where she was sitting.
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Nice cave house, I’m quite intrigued by the idea of living in a cave. Two very nice sketches Tessa, and it was nice sharing your memory of the place. I’ve uploaded a sketch or sketches of a boat abandoned in Iceland( bloody things blocking the isle).
It’s actually a study of the shape of the hull looking from different angles. I’m fascinated at the different shape achieved in different places, using the same material for the same reason.
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I sketched this three years ago today. It is Bull Bay on Anglesey . It was my last “ normal” day out with my lovely husband
Two weeks later he had a fall resulting in a year in hospital he is now tetraplegic. This sketch brought back smiles and tears . So continue your sketches ,use them as special times.
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Life has been a bit of a swine to you over the last few years, Sylvia. Best wishes, as always.
I keep most of my sketchbooks, too- and I've been to Bull Bay: long time ago now, but I should have sketched it, but had gone on holiday without a sketchbook, and itched to draw something for the better part of two weeks; my father thought it would be a good idea to go camping in North Wales - it ruddy well wasn't! Wet, wet, wet - cold - and primitive lavatorial arrangements.
However, ignore this trip down Memory Lane.... what we should do with sketches is make very sure we label them; I can recognize most of mine, but some could be of just about anywhere: and I don't remember where they actually were.
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I do envy you keep sketchbooks, due to my father serving in the RAF, and them me ,we had limited space for keeping things.
Postings every 2-21/2 Yrs meant a clear out , what was really needed fitted into the allotted box space. I have keep a few over the last ten yrs or so. I also wish I had kept the sketch done when I serving overseas, still I have the memories.
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Sylvia I do like your double page sketches and obviously you have the instant memories from it. How much better to have good sketches like this than a load of photos half of which get lost when you change your phone!
Dixie I like your boat studies. Perhaps they’re blocking the isles to keep the one way system going!
This is my sketch for today, been sitting in the garden while hubby sets his tomatoes up in the greenhouse. I’ve also posted it on the gallery with some watercolour added.
