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Very good selfie, Hilary. There is a definite likeness with your avatar. Denise, there is a feeling of autumn in your lovely sketch today. Look forward to seeing a few more of your portraits too. Great looking shed, Gillian. I’ve tried Inktense and don’t seem to get very good results, which could be down to my sketching. Very true, Alan, and also like a box of chocolates - you never know what your going to get. Love the intermingled silver and ginger tabbies.
I’ll need to submit something later, but have an idea for resurrecting an old photo to smooth out some of the wrinkles.
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Thanks, Linda. Nothing to submit today as I've been trying to hunt down some larger, soft sticks of compressed charcoal. I don't seem to be able to get the really dark blacks that I want. Nathan Fowkes suggests Cretacolor Chunky Charcoal, but I haven't been able to find that locally. Anyway, look forward to seeing today's sketches.
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Some great portraits and lovely ponies in the past day or two. Good to see it’s going well, my offering is a sketch of a derelict traction engine. Great old machines and so powerful, sad to see them deteriorating away, the colours of the metals rusting is superb, and seeing the different metals changing colours. A friend has a couple of working steam traction and steam rollers, there is an old one that’s been there for year his father spoke about restoration, but it past it now.
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Gosh such detail Dixie, you obviously have an eye for these things. Will you turn this one into a painting?
Inspired by the portraits and use of charcoal this is mine for today, on oil painting paper pad which a friend at art group gave me, and I quite like the effect of the charcoal 
on the rough paper.
on the rough paper.
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I was planning to do it as a painting. I did a full sketch (not this one) a year or ago at the time I thought about it. I try to do different things but do come back to old vehicles etc as I love the colours and shapes of these old machines. I think it’s also to do with how they were used and what was achieved with then, then end up on a dump, I dare say some analysts would say is me reflecting ageing but who cares.