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Bari Marsh

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Pencil sketch for a 20x30cm pen and ink drawing of the Odeon cinema and the Automotive Supplies garage in Buttermarket Street in Warrington. 

Denise Cat

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Great perspective Bari and the little figures dotted about look good.

Bari Marsh

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Thanks Denise, I've made a few changes put a car in the garage and a man on a stool out side plus making a start on the bricks 

Bari Marsh

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A little bit more 

Bari Marsh

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The finished work 

Colin Berwick

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Wow!  I love the quaint little shop squeezed in the middle - the sort you don't see any more. A tobacconist perhaps, or maybe a sweet shop or philatelist.  Takes me back to Saturday morning pictures, circa late 50s, the Astoria, Old Kent Road, just along from the canal.   A scab on both knees and a shilling in your pocket. 6d to go in, leaving another 6d for some sweets and a bag of foreign stamps. The glamour of childhood! 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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A labour of love - when did  you first get infatuated with a brick? I think of you as Bari Bricks - and an excellent drawing: some really difficult angles to get right in that old building - this would look fantastic mounted and in a glazed frame.   

Bari Marsh

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Thanks Colin and Robert the pen and ink and bricks started 53 years ago with a print at an Aunt's house it's more stone than brick and I do the drawing from memory on the first page of all my journals, it's the left handed stairs in Castle Bolton in Yorkshire..
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Gillian Cooke

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Great piece of work Bari, I don’t know how you can draw all those bricks and cobbles so quickly!

Bari Marsh

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Not as quick as it seems Gillian I'm lucky if I get 5 hours sleep a night, so do spend late evenings and early mornings drawing.
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That explains it then! I must admit that I have problems sleeping and have thought about doing the same but didn’t want to get into a habit!  It seems to work for you though!

Colin Berwick

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Bari, your drawing of the stairs reminded me of a photo I took in Carew Castle. How many folk have walked up and down them over the centuries!   Spooky! I keep thinking that it would make a challenging subject - perhaps in pencil and monochrome wash.  Feel free to use it if you wish.
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