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encaustic flower 001

Nerys B

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No housework done, but I have had a brilliant morning painting some of my roses again and added them to my gallery, plus 2 other earlier rose paintings, as they say on Blue Peter, I did earlier.
encaustic flower 001

Nerys B

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Just to say I had a brilliant afternoon yesterday painting some more rose, they were done on 1/4 imperial Bockingford paper, which was too large to scan on my scanner, which explains the odd angle of the painting I uploaded into my gallery.

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I paint more often than not by electric light - I do have a door which admits North light (and draughts) but that's about it; and I quite often paint at night anyway, because that's when I come alive - (I'm not really a vampire, but it's just the way my body clock works, for whatever reason). I think over time one adjusts - gets to know colours, and can read them on the palette even though one's not working in optimum light. The one thing I'd be careful of when working this way is in regard to ultramarine; it can look usefully subdued as a dark if applied by artificial light, but the moment it appears in natural light, or under gallery conditions, it sticks out like a throbbing, intrusive sore thumb; mix something, anything with it - never use it neat.