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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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My offering , theses have been hiding away for the past year, part of a set of six originally scheduled for the kitchen but never made it. All are watercolour as you would expect from me.
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John Graham Inkson

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Great composition Alan, but come on now how about some nice earthy colours.

Jenny Harris

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Wanted to do something new for this challenge, but at the moment am really struggling to get back into my painting after a recent break so have given up for the time being, and thought I’d post instead the pair to my earlier one.  (This was done first.)
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Great composition Alan, but come on now how about some nice earthy colours.
John Graham Inkson on 05/11/2019 13:44:36
You can imagine those - just requires the mind's eye to get to work.  I'm sure Alan will locate the Terra Rosa and Indian Red for a future work...

Alan Bickley

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Thanks guys, it’s rather nice to work in mono occasionally, and I am still getting to grips with this Nitram stuff! Plenty of earth colours on the next one John, that’s if I do another of course - depends if I can find some fungi, I don’t want to revert to Google!

Jennifer Edwards

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Thank you Linda. I'm really wanting to give this one a try. I was inspired yesterday by a lovely lady on a site I'm on on fb, who painted 2 pics one with her dominant hand and one with her non dominant. Think I'm going to give this a go with my left hand later. It may be a mess but I need to paint!! 
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Lewis Cooper

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Jennifer, I would certainly have a go using your 'wrong' hand, I'm assuming it's your left from what you say.  We gave it a go at my art group a few years ago.   Everybody was expecting a big selection of 'messes' on paper, but in fact they weren't bad at all.  It felt very strange using the wrong hand, but I could still recognize the drawing as mine.

Jennifer Edwards

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well heres my attempt with the wrong hand. I went more loose and chuck it on, used a candle to block out some white area as I knew my hand wouldnt be able to do that, (my left hand shakes 😂) and my pen works dodgy, but it's better than I thought it would be. I may try something more detailed with it next time. 

Alan Bickley

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9 x 9in drawing on mountboard applied with a watercolour wash of burnt sienna. Loosely drawn fungi growing under the base of a tree, almost entirely from imagination, not a mushroom in sight! Rigger brush, acrylic ink and white gouache/conte pencil.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Great painting/ drawing. I particularly like that it done on board and showing some wood graining woodlands on wood brilliant.
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Mia Ketels

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This is my second entry to the Forum Challenge: ink and oil pastels.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Good, bold work - oil pastel is good for this technique; especially using a rough paper: I'm giving advice at the moment because I have so little time to paint, but being on the blessed computer so often enables me to swap between jobs (I'm an Election agent - again).  Oil pastel on a rough paper, with a preliminary wash of watercolour or acrylic, is particularly satisfying - just looks like being next year before I can get down to it...
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