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Tessa Gwynne

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Excellent start Linda! Beautifully drawn. Here’s a quick sketch, may do more later.

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Linda Drury

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Definitely Oliver Twist, good one Tessa 👍👍

Jenny Harris

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Lovely sketch, Linda - Lewis beat me to it, I also guessed Great Expectations! (and Oliver Twist, nice one Tessa).  Look forward to seeing yours, Lewis, an ideal challenge for you!

Margaret Nisbet

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So clever, and beautifully drawn, Linda and Tessa :)  I guessed Oliver Twist okay but I've never read (or watched) Great Expectations.  I expect I'm going to struggle with this - I read an lot but haven't read many of the classics and the stuff I read is probably not well enough known.  Will be interested to see what other books people illustrate.
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Lewis Cooper

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A good point Margaret.  I read all the time, but whether they are so well known that people can guess the title is another matter entirely.  So this challenge may not be quite so easy.

Tessa Gwynne

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I wouldn’t worry about that Margaret. I must admit I picked Oliver Twist partly because it was an easy option, I wouldn’t say it was really my favourite book, but couldn’t think of anything else that I could do a cover for! Besides you can always give a clue and it’ll be more of a challenge for us guessing. Mine was a bit obvious!

Sandi Vince

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Hi Forum Friends. This month's Challenge is definitely going to be a challenge.  Though a challenge keeps me feeling healthy and fighting for life so I am going to try to get a sketch out for this challenge. I wanted to ask if it is alright for me to post-digital sketches as well.  The reason I ask is that on Friday my mobile decided it had enough of life and died so I have had to order some better surgery for it to get it up and running again. Besides that, it needs a new charging dock. This mobile is a real PITA, but that is life, we do not realize how much we rely on technology until your mobile phone dies on you.  Then you run around like a mad hatter trying to remember all the numbers that you did not write down in a little black book. So getting back to my question, can I post digital sketches till I get my mobile up and running, please.
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Lewis Cooper

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Here's my effort.  Done in my A3 sketchbook.  Pen & watercolor, plus touches of gouache.  Wish I'd done it on better paper...might have taken it further.  Everyone should get this, no probs.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Great sketching Lew, I think it’s the Cruel Sea.

Margaret Nisbet

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No idea what the book is but the illustration is fabulous Lewis!  I suspect I should know - is it an Alasdair McLean book?   (sorry, I've put the same comment on the Gallery)  ?Humphrey Bogart - if I'm wrong it is my lack of knowledge of filmstars rather than your drawing.

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Fiona Phipps

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I haven’t got a favourite really, I love all books....apart from biographies, autobiographies and romances, except for the classical romances.....other than that I’ll read anything. I don’t watch the telly, so reading and art is what I do in my spare time in the evenings. Most of my favourites are from my younger days, books that took me to another place and time, on adventures and mysteries. So I’ve started with this one, not a difficult title to work out, I still love reading this. Lewis that’s tremendous, I can only think of titles like.....the sea wolf, cockleshell hero’s, the cruel sea etc.

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Linda Drury

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Lewis I thought of The Sea Shall Not Have Them but after seeing other peoples thought I think it might be The Cruel Sea. Like your sketch Fiona but I can't think of the title, sorry!!!
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