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Alan, your 12 days of xmas have made me laugh everyday as it reminded me of the dreadful school concert I ruined. My mum is 82 in a couple of days and I mentioned it to her. I told her why I had been reminded of it. She remembered it like it was yesterday and we had a good giggle over the phone. Katy, your painting is full of spring, as for putting the pear on WIP, I think they might get more of a laugh when it starts going wrong. Hilary, that's a beautiful butterfly and Margaret I am enjoying your watercolours. Such a lovely sketch of your grandson Tessa and Paul, you have done well with the oil pastels. Here is my sketch for tonight. I've already named it Wonky staircase, try again.
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Looks like a very grand staircase, Denise - as Gillian says, they are tricky and you made a good attempt (I tried to do ours recently - some "interesting" results ...). Ron, your "drawing with the eraser" has been very effective. A nice composition, Gillian, are you thinking of doing a painting. My sketch is an extremely quick watercolour attempt at trying to capture the fugitive colours of some clouds out of the window.
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by Margaret Nisbet
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Another set of great sketches. Tessa your grandson looks adorable in his teddy suit, I have never thought of using my cold tea or coffee! Might give it a go. Paul, I struggle with oil pastels, nothing seems to shift them to blend properly. Lovely portrait Gillian and I really like your abandoned building would make a nice painting. The staircase is marvellous Denise, I don’t know why but it seems like a very ghostly scene, is that a figure at the top or an apparition! I been concentrating on shading and I really like the figure work Ron, a very challenging pose to capture. The delicate watercolours are lovely Margaret.
Ive been working on this sketch most of the day, its an old fashioned silver teapot, Ive a long way to go as the shape is really challenging.
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Lovely old building nestled in the trees, Gillian. Margaret, it must be difficult to catch the fleeting colours particularly at this time of year. Another great figure, Tessa. I like the subtlety of the tea. I’ve tried espresso a few times and it’s a bit like sepia. Good luck with the rest of the teapot, Hilary, it’s looking great already.
Last day of the workshop today and I get the impression it contains collage. Not exactly my ‘cup of tea’ (pardon the pun, Tessa) but could be interesting. Does anyone do portraits in collage?
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Good luck with that Ron! No, collage is my least favourite arty thing, our teacher tries to get us into it at least once a term and I just have no enthusiasm for it, though I can admire some work by others. For anyone who takes The Artist magazine there’s a quite interesting article on collage portraits by Kate Newington this month. I just remember it as something I did in junior school and think of it at that level!
I’m ready to be shot down by any of you collage fans out there!