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Tanja Gerster

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Fascinating Sylvia; I really like your style of brush strokes very much!

Sylvia Evans

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Thanks Tanja it is just a try out for somerpthing more ambitious. .
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Andrew Roles

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Some interesting postings this month, one last one from me. Today was freezing, but I managed to find a place in the sun opposite a caravan park, where I did the one below. Heaven knows why these trees have been pollarded so drastically, but they are beginning to fight back already.   
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Marjorie Firth

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Somehow it looks cold despite the sunshine. The problem with some pollarded trees ( in our village and by the council) is that their branches will never thicken in the same way.

Sylvia Evans

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Cold and stark Andrew...there were. Little pockets or warm...not many.
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Lewis Cooper

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A word about sketchbooks themselves.  I have several on the go because most of what I do comes from sketchbooks, at this time of year I'm thinking about buying the next batch.  And, of course, Christmas is just around the corner.  My family is now pre-conditioned to buy me sketchbooks, so that helps.  Recently I've been searching through my books finding the remaining usable pages. I have to  rest my hand on the pages as I draw, last years books  were mostly spiral bound.  I'd draw on the right hand page, as the spiral gets in the way when I draw on the left side.  So, having  filled all the right hand pages, I'd flip the book upside down and  work my way back through the sketchbook.  It gives the book at odd look.  (No big deal).  This is what I mean... ...several of my books are kept for more fully worked drawings.  I do have  cheap 'scribble' books too. So this year I'll give the spiral bound books a miss and get case-bound versions.

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Andrew Roles

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I  know what you mean about spiral bound books. I’ve been using case bound A5 sketchbooks when I go out for walks as they are lightweight and compact. However I noticed that the majority of plein-air sketches I do are do are double pagers, so I’ve decided to stick an A4 sketchbook in my bag and see what I end up with. If I start doing double pagers again I could end up looking like some of the fishermen I pass who seem to have brought everything but the kitchen sink when they go out for the day. 
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Lewis Cooper

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Yes Andrew, I'll often want to do a double page drawing.  It doesn't look right with a spiral bound sketchbook.  I don't do plein-air stuff, but I take your point.  Occasionally whilst waiting in hospitals I'd doodle in an A5 sketchbook, but that's about it for me.
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Marjorie Firth

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Initial tentative sketching in of my granddaughter…by posting this I’m committing myself to a painting or a pastel. This is just on lining paper to get to grips with angles etc. 
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Marjorie Firth

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Finished this prelim. Willow charcoal and white conte on lining paper.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Wow I do wish I could do a sketch ad good as that Marjorie. 

Norrette Moore

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Likewise! its beautiful.
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