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George Cutter

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Excellent sketch Paul, the pastel works a treat!

Alan Bickley

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Steam and sail… just fabulous Paul!
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Lewis Cooper

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I'm going to do a pic involving an orangutan, so I thought I'd sketch one first.  Glad I did.  Got it wrong.  Eyes too human, forehead too small among other things. I'll have to take more care with the proportions.  But it hasn't put me off making a larger picture.

Jenny Harris

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Interesting to see everyone's sketches for later paintings.  Like Gill, I’m planning to do another linocut.  This is my initial sketch for it.

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Gillian Cooke

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The foxglove linocut is only the second one I will have done. Good to tackle something new!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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At thirty four degrees and not even the slightest hint of a breeze it’s far to hot to try watercolours , so I decided to play with some pens, still dry in the shade very quickly  where it’s around twenty eight degrees, a ten minute sketch .

Tessa Gwynne

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This is also possibly with a view to a painting- some figure work with the obligatory coffee and phone.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Great figures Tessa , something I struggle with. Messing about last night with gel pen and pastel on black cartridge paper.
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Gillian Cooke

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Here is a  print of the picture.i sketched  yester
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Lewis Cooper

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I like coloured pencils.  I've read in several places that drafting film is great for coloured pencils.  So I thought I'd give it a try.  I much prefer water soluble pencils, having used the pencil dry, you take a brush with clean water and can soften and blend the pencil marks...it becomes very much like watercolour.  On paper!  Some people call them watercolour pencils.  Drafting film is a type of plastic, so you can't use water with the pencils, but you can use them dry.  Or so they say. So I do some quick tests of my drafting film.  Here it is, nothing special, just quickly seeing what happens... The eye was done with Polycromos pencils (these are only used dry).  The bearded man was done  with watercolour pencils used dry.  I found it weird drawing on a plastic surface, it'll take some getting used to.  Then I scribbled a bird with black pen.  On paper these pens dry almost immediately.  I waited ten minutes...touched the ink drawing...and produced a smudge!  I drew three marks on the film with a black pen, left them to dry over night, and rubbed my finger over them this morning.  They all smudged.  What's going on?  Drafting was originally used by architects, I'd assumed they used ink, perhaps they used pencil.  I rubbed my finger lightly over the coloured pencil marks (as I'd done with the pen marks)...no smudging. I couldn't resist trying water with my coloured pencil.  The black face was rapidly drawn with a black pencil, then I used a damp brush to blend it a little...when dry it didn't smudge. I'd expected the water to bead on the plastic, it didn't.   So I quickly drew the face below with a venetian red pencil... ...with the wet brush I was able to blend and tint the  whole face with the pencil colour picked up by the brush.  I do this all the time on paper, I wasn't expecting it to work at all on drafting film.  This is a very quick and crudely done drawing, the next step would be to add more layers, using the water will almost certainly ruin any drawing, but I intend to follow it up. So...first impressions...I'll stay with paper.  Drafting film definitely works with dry coloured pencils...but so does paper.  I have 25 sheets of drafting film, so 25 attempts if I make it thus far with this surface.  I'm expecting my use of drafting film to be very brief.  But never say never.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Bit of mixed media, pen , graphite pencil and pastel , trawler on the blocks awaiting repair, might end up,as a painting at some point 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Paul - your piece works already: if I've drawn something and it's come off (to my satisfaction, insofar as anything ever is) I find I've probably said what I needed to say; which is a bit of a snag if I really intended it to be a sketch for a painting - and that's why most of my sketches are on the basic side.... yours is more worked out than most of mine.  But I imagine you don't have my peculiar mind-set, so I look forward to seeing your painting, if you do it. Lew - you keep experimenting!  Ink on plastic smudges because it's a wet material and won't be absorbed, so dries, if it ever does, purely by evaporation - I had some plastic film: there was a series of sketchbooks  produced by Daler-Rowney, which had a sheet of plastic over the cover - and of course I drew on it, as I draw on anything - even the plywood crate my last delivery of wine came in - but my results on the plastic film weren't fit to be seen; YUPO paper has a similar consistency: Sylvia Evans did some work on it, I remember; I've never used it, but I'm sure you'd get good results, if you've not yet tried it.  I'm curious about paint drying on YUPO: not curious enough to dip into my wallet to buy it, though....  Always trying something new is probably why your mind remains so sharp - and  it's a good way to deal with negativity and depression: very necessary in today's world. 
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