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Gillian Cooke

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Well I started a canal scene at  the Art Group I run . However it was absolutely rubbish ( I am very hard on myself but believe me I hated it  it was in gouache which I have only used a couple of times. Anyway rather than try to rescue it I filed it to the bin.  So I have stared a new version in my old favourite acrylic. Here is progress so far.. hope you like to see how it goes!
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Carol .

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Nice work, Gillian. I like the subject, and the warm tones of the bridge. It's nice to view so many projects within the forum. 

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It’s looking  good Gill , I’m looking forward to seeing the stages and the final painting.
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Gillian Cooke

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Two photos one taken around lunchtime and the second about 5pm today. It’s coming along reasonably well but there’s a lot of work ahead . Having Parkinson’s makes any fine details and lines is a challenge with my tremor but it’s a matter of finding ways to give my hand support. Mahl stick is helpful  but smaller pieces are more of a challenge! But where there’s a will there’s a way!
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Gillian Cooke

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State of play at9pm this evening

Gabriel Fox

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Beautiful, any update on it?
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It’s looking really good Gillian,  I like the reflections .
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Gillian Cooke

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Beautiful, any update on it?
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Not had time to paint today!
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Gillian Cooke

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Well I think I am just about finished . Still a bit of tweaking to the reflections I think 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It looks really good Gill, love the boat and it’s reflection along with  the bridge .

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Nice job here Gillian. Reflections in water are always darker, I’d knock the bridge reflection down a touch with a wash of neutral tint (if you have any), and possibly break up the shape a bit… ripples in the water will distort the reflection! Obvious I know, but a good job anyway, I like the narrowboat in particular!

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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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Reflections challenge me - to the extent that, to be honest, I more often than not find cunning methods to avoid showing them - a handy rock, a clump of foliage....  Secret's out now....  No reflection - other than photographs which have been heavily edited - will be a total carbon  copy of the object reflected, and we'd have great difficulty reading them if they were; not only darker, but generally speaking rather more grey, and usually broken up.  I painted the Gap of Dunloe some few years ago (and I've just sold the painting!) and avoided the reflection of the main mountain by introducing turbulence in the water.  Well - I feel I should do it again, with that reflection, though will have to rely on a photograph to remind me.  You may consider that you've shamed me into it, because you've not chickened out of painting the reflection: truth is, my failure to take it on has been niggling away at my leathery old conscience for some time. 
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