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Sylvia Evans

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Tis very blue Sandra…tis  super.
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Hilary Forbes

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This is an oldie too - based on some woods where we go walking. They have an eerie feel, you feel uneasy walking there, and blue seemed to create  the right mood.
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George Cutter

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A very sketchy Percy painting
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Well what a great response so many interpretations al done so well. I set the challenge just chose the subject as it was the first thing I thought off , mmmm not a bright idea as I’ve struggled to think of what to do , then I suddenly thought of my childhood. We live in married quarters and most RAF camps were way out in the countryside, one fire in the living room, so paraffin heaters were used , I clearly remember the smell of the heaters and how cold it  was when you moved away from them. As a nine year old it was my job to clean and trim the wicks and get the paraffin from the local garage about two miles away, told every time make sure you get Esso Blue not the Pink stuff . Happy days hard at times , as I’m sure we all can say , but very different to how it is now . 
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Sandra Kennedy

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Lovely to see Percy again, I've been missing him and wondering if he has stopped painting! And really enjoy yours too Paul, happy days at hard times indeed. As this is a February challenge and we're only 6 (or 7 here) days in, hopefully there'll be some more. 
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Skylar Brown

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Here is an older piece which I just reworked today  "Night Bird & The Turbulent Indigo"
Entwined, abstract

Sandra Kennedy

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Love your blues Skylar.

Tessa Gwynne

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Some super work here, mostly older stuff it seems, so I browsed through some of my older work to see if I could find something suitably blue and came across this alcohol ink on Yupo paper done a few years ago.  I will try to produce something newer and bluer!

Sylvia Evans

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Jackson Pollock roll over…..he did,

Norrette Moore

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Just as an aside, (and my mind has not been on painting this week...and I've a couple of hours to decide what I'm going to do at art group today) I have a couple of blue paintings, but I have to dig them out and then photograph or scan them. My question is, it must be quicker to photograph than to scan, how do you get such good squared off flat images?  Is there an app you use? ( yes, I know, I'm s'posed to be the techie one here :) ). ( and yes, Paul, I remember the smell of paraffin well. 🔥)

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Lynda Green

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Here is my interpretation. I enjoyed painting this one.

Tessa Gwynne

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Norette, I always take photos at stages of a painting and obviously when completed, using my iPhone or iPad. You end up with zillions of them, but it’s good to look back through and I have a deleting session now and then.  I don’t use an app but it’s easy enough to edit and square up the image.

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