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Gary Martin

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Yes good luck Gary. I’m sure you’ll do well. Exciting!
Tessa Gwynne on 05/02/2024 20:11:42
Thank you Tessa. Yes, exciting, scary, fun, ...so many things but good overall...and I now don't know if I can enter TALP in the Leisure Painter or Artist category 🤔 🤣
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Gary, your work is really good and if you are making money to live on by selling it  I’d suggest ‘The Artist’ category, especially as it gives you the potential for multiple pieces to be selected. That just my opinion. You could always email someone at the magazine and ask their advice if you are in that in-between artist/ hobby painter stage. 

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Gary Martin

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Gary, your work is really good and if you are making money to live on by selling it  I’d suggest ‘The Artist’ category, especially as it gives you the potential for multiple pieces to be selected. That just my opinion. You could always email someone at the magazine and ask their advice if you are in that in-between artist/ hobby painter stage. 
Andrew Roles on 06/02/2024 06:47:08
Thank you Andrew, I appreciate your thoughts. I'll probably go for the Artist one (although it will be a while before I make enough money to live on 😀).
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Today has been a battle with the flowers. I hadn't realised how much they move during a day! I also struggled with the values but it's getting there and they are going back in the lounge. I'm hoping I can tweak them as needed from photo reference and work on the rest of the painting tomorrow. I really thought I would get this layer done today!
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Worked on the background a bit today. Needed a less full-on day so taking it easy and slow.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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You're doing a fanastic job with these, and if I were you - I'd call this one finished; but - I'm not you (you'd have noticed...).  We don't seem to have any daffodils blooming out here yet - having said which, I shall probably go out shopping tomorrow, and encounter a whole regiment of them.   Now, I have to confess to not been daffs' greatest fan - there are different types of course, some of which appeal to me more than others; BUT - I prefer your painting to any of them. 
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Gary Martin

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Thank you Robert and, although part of me agreed with you, another part wanted to spend most of today making some of it worse (the material in the foreground became something I endlessly tweaked and then scraped off and started again)! I am not a fan of daffodils either, they turned out to be the hardest flower so far to paint for me - such subtle values. But here's the final one and I'm pretty pleased and also pleased I can move on now! My wife can also have them (now fairly droopy) back in the lounge for a day or 2. Not seen any daffs here yet - lots of great snowdrops though.

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How beautiful Gary.   
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Very subtle and beautiful Gary.
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Gary Martin

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Thank you both - I think it's ready for the gallery now :-)

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Beautiful Gary.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I should have said not being daffs' greates fan, not been.  Can't have you all thinking I don't recognize a nice derangement of epitaphs (for the scholars of Restoration Comedy among you: just call me Mr Malaprop). You were right to go on to the finish, and you're done a great job with this: put a frame around it, and the world's gone mad if it doesn't sell.  
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