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Lewis Cooper

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Sorry you felt the need to remove the posts, Martin.  But thanks anyway, your input was appreciated.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Once you become a moderator, the controls are different: and once you get past the 70 year old mark, you forget what they were!  I think you can still remove your own posts, though?  I removed Martin's on this occasion because he'd asked us to - but I thought you COULD delete your own posts, if not, obviously, anyone else's.  They weren't substantive posts, Martin's others, those he intended to keep, are still here. 

Martin Shaw

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Okay, I’m okay with that. 
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Sandra Kennedy

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I have occasionally deleted my own post by backspacing it all out and then just typing deleted in the blank space. What I couldn't find a way to do was get rid of the fact I'd posted something in the first place. You're still left with your name and a blank space.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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So there isn't a 'delete' button?  I've had moderator's rights for a long time now, so don't remember th'old days ....  it's something that would be quite useful, I would have thought, if it doesn't exist ... now and then we all say something that strikes us as plain daft once posted, and would like to remove it: I know you can edit posts, but being able to just remove our own posts, creeping away bashfully having done so in the hope that no one noticed, would be useful...  The lack of such a facility might make us think before posting though: always a good plan.......
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A good strong character, Lewis. Well done. A question, Lewis - could you do a portrait painting of a person and present their likeness similar to the one above?
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Lewis Cooper

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Not quite understanding the question Carol...I'm a bit thick this morning.  Do you mean  could I put somebody else's face on this picture...another painting of course?  Yes. Not too thrilled with the painting myself, it's OK, could have been worse.  Need lots of practice with oils.  I have started another, at the moment I'm too lazy to keep at it.
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Sorry, Lewis my question is a bit vague. When I was in Bath shopping, a few years ago, there was a street artist, an art student no doubt, people sat for him, at a cost, to have caricatures of themselves. It was interesting to watch how his work came together.
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Not too thrilled with the painting myself, it's OK, could have been worse.  Need lots of practice with oils.  I have started another, at the moment I'm too lazy to keep at it.
Lewis Cooper on 05/09/2024 07:52:26
Maybe its not lazy-ness, Lewis, could be oils are just not your thing.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Too early to come to that conclusion.  Oils would represent a different approach, though - you're dealing more with slabs of colour with oil paint, rather than fluid drawing in paint, as you are with inks, watercolour, and, if you work that way, acrylics.  
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I agree, Robert. It was just an idle thought. I haven't used the oils I purchased a while back. I was enthused by conversations in the forum. How long do you think the oils will last, they were purchased over a year ago?

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Depends on the make to some extent Carol, and where they are stored! Bits left in tubes will go hard pretty quickly… Decades in some instances, but best to get them on a canvas well before then!

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