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Thomas Greene

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Had this one on the go for about 3 months. Finally finding some time to do some more. Acrylic on linen board. 30 x 40.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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We'll leave you in happy contemplation of all the work you have still to do: close up studies of animal fur/hair take a lot of study, effort, a varied palette, and considerable skill: you'll be well aware of that - or if you weren't, you soon will be.  I painted a fox a while ago, and can't find it!  Maybe he's in a nearby hen-coop.... I think I probably sold it, or more probably gave it away to my late Auntie Peg, who left us a couple of years ago at 95, and had a weakness for animal studies....  but I wish I'd kept it: I'll follow your progress on Foxy, as my consolation. 

Thomas Greene

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Cheers Robert. Yes hair is always a bit of a challenge. It gets better the more you put into it I find. The right brush is also a great help. Dagger brushes are my weapon of choice for hair and some feathers too.

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Great detail Thomas. I must say your fox looks very pleased with himself: maybe he has just polished off a chicken dinner!?
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Coming along nicely: as Tessa says, a very contented fox.... I'll post mine if I can find it: not in competition at all, but just to give you an idea of how someone else did it.  Here's mine, from 2015, and I did indeed give it to my late Auntie Peg.

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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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Not a very good image, but then, it was the idea rather than any desire to compete with yours that I thought I'd share. 
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Carol .

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A lovely image, Thomas. Glossy and well nourished. Robert, yours has that furtive foxy stance.

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Hope you don’t mind Thomas but…

Thomas Greene

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I don't mind at all. I've tried to do that and it's just not having it. So I gave up. More important stuff to worry about. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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He does look a lot better this way up... the Ipad experts (If that's what you're using) can tell you how to insert an image the right way up; on a pc, save the photo to a picture management programme, like Quick View, then upload from there. 
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