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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Challenges are normally set from the beginning of the month but it’s never to late to take a challenge.  It’s been some time since we last had the monthly challenge and it fell by the wayside as people had other things to do, it seems that this might be the time to start it again so for this moth the challenge is to :  Produce in any medium, style , shape or form , PEOPLE AT WORK . This can be any type of work, from steeple Jack to sponge diver or anything in between. Seriously it how you interpret the challenge.  Do post some of your older work but do try to challenge yourself and do something new and different if possible ie a different style to your usual work. I’m definitely looking forward to seen what turns up , I’ve missed setting up the challenge and seeing the results. 

Norrette Moore

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Thanks for this Paul, you are a hard worker.  I rarely submit as I'm a slow coach.   I always wanted to create a 'men' at work photographic series ever since I went to my local tube station over 30 years ago and was entranced at the image of various people along a scaffold attached to a new bridge over the line, each doing their own bit.  That image has stayed with me for decades. As I was heading to work I couldn't go home to get my camera in those pre-mobile days. But I know I couldn't recreate it from memory. But I'll look at other reference photos I do have and see what I can muster.  I'm tied up at the moment but I think I might start a "slow painters challenge" thread on a quarterly basis, when I'm freer in the new year. If you can travel Robert, I'd recommend going to a large gallery, it always fires me up, changes my focus.

Denise Cat

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The hod carrier. I found this reference on Upsplash. Photographer Carl Mydans 1936. My father did a spot of hod carrying when he was a very young man many years ago. I don't think he liked it much. I enjoyed spending a couple of hours drawing it though.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Good bit of drawing there - he looks very relaxed to be a hod-carrier: I think I'd look rather pained........  But never mind all that whimsicality, this is good. 

Denise Cat

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Imagine the aching neck and shoulders Robert, doesn't bare thinking about.
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my Grandpa was a Stoker on the Cottonbelt railroad, til the time the Engineer and he got drunk while returning to the round house. The ended up derailing out of town. Luckilt the train was empty, and noone was hurt. Soon after that, Pop became a carpenter...
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Skylar Brown

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Pls forgive my misspelling. I am a lousy typist.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I was thinking about next month’s challenge and suddenly remembered that I hadn’t done anything for this month, pre occupied with other issues etc . Two pencil sketches of people at work.