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Hilary Pearce

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Nothing from me today as busy in the garden making the most of the fine weather.  Paul i like your sketch of these unusual  flowers such interesting shapes.

Tessa Gwynne

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Finally got a little sketching done on a walk around Batsford Arboretum this morning, sat outside the little church there and drew one of the gravestones and little cottage next to the church.
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Gillian Cooke

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Well done Tessa! I haven’t done anything the past couple of days, however I am out tomorrow so have popped pencil and sketch book in my bag so hopefully I will have an offering! Tessa I was watching a tv programme today and there was a piece about Highgate cemetery in London, there’s a wealth of great subjects to draw and paint. My sister has taken many brilliant  photographs there.

Tessa Gwynne

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Hi Gillian, enjoy your day and hope you get the sketch pad out of the bag! My daughter used to live near a huge old London cemetery (don’t think it was Highgate) and we walked through a few times, absolutely fascinating! 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Nice sketch Tessa. My offering today was sketched this morning and the basic colours add on site, one of my favourite beech trees. Old gnarled and looking worn out , sound like me. It’s a4 size and I will complete it at home have a couple of photos , the dark green holly makes it stand out more.  There are so many beautiful trees up on the Chilterns, and particularly on Pulpit hill where I work, I don’t know why I don’t do more woodland paintings, spoilt for choice.

Hilary Pearce

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Like your sketch Tessa, old graveyards are fascinating, I used to live close to Kensal Green Cemetery which is another huge London graveyard .  Hope your outing is fruitful Gillian and you do lots of sketching.  Love your woodland sketch Paul. Are you going to do a WIP.  Mines a back to basics following my online art class yesterday, Still Life.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Very nice sketch I particularly like the grapes. I had not thought of doing it as a wip, I love doing them but don’t want to bore people and hogging the forum. I find doing a wip keeps me on my toes a lot. If you like tree paintings have look at the work of Pedder Mork Munsted, he was  a great painter in my view.
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Gillian Cooke

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Lovely tree Paul! Like the still life study Hilary! Didn’t manage anything whilst out as didn’t go according to plan! However just done a quick sketch of the Cathedral in Baza ( passed through the Plaza today) not the greatest rendition though! 

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Lovely to have a cathedral on your doorstep Gillian, and you’ve captured the solidity and size well. Dixie I like the delicate start to your tree sketch And the idea that you work there is great. Obviously you know the area and the trees well. Are you back doing your teaching yet? Hilary I like your fruity still life. I had some flowers from my/daughters today and this is just one rose I tried to sketch.

Hilary Pearce

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Lovely Tessa.  Roses are such delicate flowers they ask to be drawn, I have a few clinging on to the good weather in the garden.  Like your cathedral Gillian, you have shown the sense of scale in this sketch. Mines a quick sketch of a view near our town centre where we have a lovely church and this is the side view.  I’ll need more time to do the front view :)
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Nice sketch of the cathedral Gillian, the few roses I have in the garden are now  gone over you sketch is good I find drawing them quite relaxing. The street scene with the local church is good Hilary the perspective is spot on. No not back to running the art workshops as yet Tessa, I don’t think it will happen this year. The National Trust is still not fully operational, a few volunteers are back working, strangely the countryside team are one of the last the return . Some of the issues are that they are reducing staff , so need to reorganisation how people can work. My offering to day is a continuation of the tree I started to draw, added some colour and started to add detail, pleased with it so far, I want it to have a translucency to the paint if poss,

Hilary Pearce

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Great progress on the tree Paul.  My offering today is a sketch from a recent visit to Marlborough, this view as you’re  leaving the car park over the River Kennet.  The building is a book shop and cafe.
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