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Denise Cat

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It's a super painting Malcolm. Glad to hear you have your inspiration back.
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Malcolm Davies GRA

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Here is the painting now finished. Been some time in the making but I am really pleased with the end result. Hope you are too. I am thinking this may be one of my submissions for this years Guild of Railway Artists annual exhibition, unless it sells before then of course!!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Absolutely brilliant the detailing is up to your usual high standard Malcolm . 
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Malcolm Davies GRA

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Absolutely brilliant the detailing is up to your usual high standard Malcolm . 
Paul  (Dixie) Dean on 27/03/2023 10:05:11
Thanks Paul, appreciated.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Just incredible - hyper-detailed, but very far from being just a technical illustration: your train has character, and the palette was very well-chosen; and that expertly illustrated figure gives the whole thing scale.  
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xxFionaxx xxBellxx

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It's a stunning image Malcolm. The power of the engine shows in the depiction. As children we often went by train to the East Coast and this brings back memories.
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Malcolm Davies GRA

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Just incredible - hyper-detailed, but very far from being just a technical illustration: your train has character, and the palette was very well-chosen; and that expertly illustrated figure gives the whole thing scale.  
Robert Jones, NAPA on 27/03/2023 10:12:07
Thanks Robert. I still marvel at these amazing machines being produced at a time when there were no robots or the technology we have today and so many ran for decades before being scrapped. The beauty is in the detail, or should that be the 'curse' from an artistic point of view.
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Malcolm Davies GRA

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It's a stunning image Malcolm. The power of the engine shows in the depiction. As children we often went by train to the East Coast and this brings back memories.
Fiona Bell on 27/03/2023 10:25:50
Thanks Fiona. As you say powerful and from nothing more than a big kettle really. Always great memories of travel by train.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It wasn’t just the look of power the noise gave of such a sense of power, for me the smell of a steam train or steam traction engine is something that instantly reminds me of childhood. Pity we can’t add that to out paintings , looking at Malcolm’s superb engine and being able to smell the steam , hot oil etc would be a real treat. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I've got a WIP to post, but I'd like this great train to stay up here on page 1 a bit longer.  Old enough to remember travelling in REAL trains, I miss those characteristic smells and sounds - even if when you blew your nose, your hankerchief went black.... You are putting this on the Gallery, I hope, Malcolm (may be there already, haven't looked yet). 

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