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Tessa Gwynne

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Oops missed yesterday as drove to the Forest of Dean heritage centre to meet a friend. Meant to take a sketch pad but forgot! Thanks all for the comments about my tree. Hubby is showing what appears to be a garden centre full of flowers and plants at Broadway Show today so might take pencils there.  Lovely glads Denise, flipping tricky to paint I would think. I’ve never heard of plastic palette knives but you’ll have fun with the real ones. Sylvia I love your scribbly woodland scene, the white is very effective.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some very nice sketches over the last few days and very varied. My offering today the the basic sketch for a watercolour of Thames sailing barges awaiting loading up with hay to take up to London. Very common sight in the eighteenth hundred and up until the mid nineteenth forties. More so when there were many horses and stables needing the hay.
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Gillian Cooke

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I have been playing with pastel pencils this evening. Here’s my fern that sits on my dining table.

Tessa Gwynne

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Another promising barge sketch Dixie and a lovely fern Gillian. We spent most of yesterday at the Broadway horticulture show which was lovely and I did manage some sketches of which this is one of the local ice cream sellers who always wear pink, and I must say sell gorgeous ice cream! I’ve put a couple on the gallery as well. I think this is what I’ve been missing , being able to get out and do Plein air! Hubby also did pretty well with his flowers and it was a good day all round. There’s a terrific amount of work goes into small shows like this both by the organisers and competitors. Then tennis watching in the evening to cap a good day!
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Marjorie Firth

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Tessa, I just commented on this on the Gallery. I misunderstood - I thought the man was buying! However, he’s still mean with the amount of icecream!

Tessa Gwynne

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I guess he was a little Marjorie, although maybe I just made him that way. Obviously in the interests of accuracy I had to try the ice cream. Mine was strawberries and clotted cream and it was delicious! 
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Marjorie Firth

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Ooooooh! Stoppit!

Sylvia Evans

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Today’s pic for my concertina book.  Photographed these lovely fungi in a local woodland last year. Also just re discovered a box of Inktense pencils .
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Gillian Cooke

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Very unusual fungi and makes an interesting study. Quite like the inktense pencils but still quite new to them . Today’s offering is out of my imagination a very quick sketch using a uni pin fine line

Sylvia Evans

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You could have been on my dog walk Gillian.  I don’t know much about Inktense either these have been in a cupboard for at least ten years so trial and  error. 

Tessa Gwynne

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Love the fungi Sylvia, a great find. I have Inktense blocks/sticks rather than pencils, and this makes me want to dig those out. Don’t we have so much stiff that rarely gets used!? The pencils sound more user friendly. Gillian , I like the composition with a diagonal slant to it. Your drawing has a sense of place and solitude.
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Gillian Cooke

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Just been playing with inktense pencils and water brush to create a wash of colour on last nights sketch
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