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Bari Marsh

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You and me both, then I finished up teaching,  nice little sketch Paul..
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Linda Wilson

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Wonderful boot bird box Bari!  I don’t think my stilettos would do as well.  I have been struggling with fungi this week.  Thrown one away and considering doing the same with this one.

Bari Marsh

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I like them Linda especially the gloss and reflections...but they do look a bit socially distanced. I found some cobblestones in an old sketchbook, think it's up in Cumbria..

Sylvia Evans

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Do NOT throw away Linda… don’t do it. Happy sketch Bari ..  I was supposed to be renovating dragons but the gold gloop didn’t turn up until to late .  So I did this Autumny thing with fungi and leaves. Dragon snook in. 
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Linda Wilson

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Great cobblestones Bari.  Fabulous fungi Sylvia.  Perhaps I need to work on the leaf litter and moss and grass.

Bari Marsh

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We have those little toad stools pop up all over the gravel, just appear over night  nicely done Sylvia. My sketch is more of a scribble as one of the chat lines is on Cormorants.
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Linda Wilson

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Love your cormorants Bari. Spent more time on the leaf litter, or rather twigs.  I had already put them closer together than in reality.  Perhaps the twiglet’s will tie them together.

Denise Cat

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Fungi is difficult to do I should imagine, lovely abstract Sylvia. Love the cormorants Bari and Linda, your painting is coming along fine by the looks of it. Last year I was practising a bit of portrait sketching and was coming along alright guess then stopped and kept going on to one thing, then another thing as I do. Well, I'm back trying out the portrait's again. While the structure of this face is all wrong, this is the first I've done for a long time, I was quite happy with the neck structure of all things. I will spend the rest of the evening practising. I might get a half decent face by the end of the night, you never know.

Denise Cat

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Although they are not very good, I've done three and there does seem to be a slight, ever so slight improvement as I've gone along this evening. I don't think I'll ever get the hang of portraits but I'm going to keep practising.
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Linda Wilson

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Just to be awkward, I prefer the first one, Denise.  The slight error of the direction of the nose can be put down to artistic licence and artistic style.  Really lovely!  Butto improve, I think you need to learn about the basic proportions of the face. E.g. eyes half way up the head and the width of one eye between the eyes. Meanwhile, my autumn berries are not going well.

Bari Marsh

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Not sure which method you are using Denise but I was taught to start with one eye then you use that eye as a measurement to build up the face ie distance between the eyes is one eye, distance from eye line to tip of nose one and a half eyes etc. That way you're not trying to fit a face into an oval shape. You build up the outer edges of the face from the measurements within..

Denise Cat

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I will try that Bari, thanks. Your portrait is excellent. I like your sketch Linda.
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