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Katy Dean

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Gosh, loads of work already! Lewis, it was a scrap of gessoed card, I just plied some leftover oil paint on as a practice, so not intended to last 100 years🤣. Like the Loughton cricket club band Alan, I’m an Essex girl from Ilford and my parents lived in Loughton before I was born. Dad was a great cricket fan too. Small world! Hilary, it’s a good idea to sketch what you see from the window, I might try that later. Love the heavy horse Paul, the movement is good. And two great sketches from the other Paul, very industrious!

Tessa Gwynne

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Thanks Alan for kicking off the New Year, can believe there’s so much on here already, such enthusiasm! I went for my country walk earlier and took a photo of the hedgerow with remains of the snow from a few days ago, got home and sketched from that. (Graphitone, pen and brush pens)
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Gillian Cooke

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First sketch of 2021, a wind blown tree Orkney style that I can see from the annexe lounge window!  Uni pen 

Margaret Nisbet

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What a lovely range of sketches already. Thank you Alan for setting this up. Hope you don't mind me rejoining you this January - I've done daily sketches in January for a few years and sharing them is definitely an impetus to keep going!   No outdoor sketching today - bitterly cold and still very slippy in places.   Here is my first sketch for 2021 - a starling from one of my own photos.  Fountain pen with a little ws coloured pencil.   I added some more water to this but it wasn't an improvement so this is not the final version! 

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Denise Cat

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A very quick fun sketch to start me off for the year. I have lot's of things I want to try.
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Helen Martell

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Last night I was sketching four children (for a painting I will start next week once the canvas arrives).  I sense it's going to be like one of my recent dilemmas of head to body proportion issues. The lady who has comissioned the painting sent a load of photos, one with the four children all sitting together, but with big winter coats on, and plain facial expressions. She wants all their faces smiling, and all in different clothes, so I've been trying to sketch the basic outline, changing all the clothes, and heads etc.  And it looks a right mess because Vinnie the kitty (aka 'Vinnie van Gogh'), has just walked all over it in his muddy feet!

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Katy Dean

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Love the winter hedgerow Tessa and Gillian, that’s a great Orkney blown winter tree. Margaret, love the starling, they have been giving us a fantastic show over the last few weeks so I forgive them for stuffing all the bird seed. Great fun sketch of a musician, is it a trumpet? Helen, that commission sounds a nightmare, I’m sure it will be well received when it’s done.

Tessa Gwynne

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Helen, that certainly is a challenge! Good luck to you, it’ll be interesting to follow. 🤞

Paul Elliott

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Whilst doing another painting, I noticed a couple in an interesting pose. They were tiny in the original painting, so I decided to sketch them separately in watercolour in my sketchbook. Anyway, here they are.
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Lewis Cooper

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This thread is roaring along, so much to see.  I really like Paul's sketches of everyday life, and Helen's sketch for a painting.  I was going to comment on more, but as I was scrolling back I lost what I was writing and have had to start again.  Well done everybody it's encouraging to see everyone so active. It's really interesting to see people's sketches for paintings.  Mine tend to be scribbles done in moments that mean more to me than a viewer.  I did a drawing about the New Year, when I came to draw the man in it I did a very quick scribble in a rough sketchbook.  It's bottom left in the page of sketches...doesn't look much like the finished drawing on the right...but it gave me an idea of how I wanted him to look. The other sketches were done for similar reasons...very, very rough as you can see...so I don't normally show them.
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This certainly is moving along, a wonderful amount and diverse subjects to boot.

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Denise Cat

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Your sketches are great Lewis and I think it's really good to see the variety of ways in which people draw/sketch. This thread has really helped me learn about sketching. I think it's very helpful to see sketches that then go on to be painted. I think this thread Is brilliant and very encouraging.
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