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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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Yes, I read that too! But I need an 8 year old to supervise.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have did  some details and started to darken the shadows , not a great deal done with it today .

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Your later photos are much better - the tonal variations in the earlier ones were very hard to see.  I contantly have problems photographing paintings, even with a better camera than I used to have - can't photograph anything indoors, the flat is too dark, so I have to toddle off outside to take photos - and then there's the wind and rain to contend with.  As Winter draws on, that's not going to get any easier. 
Robert Jones, NAPA on 19/10/2024 11:08:30
I can recommend a daylight lamp for photographing smaller paintings indoors. I use one on most of my paintings for this site, only rarely will the  bigger ones still get taken outside.  I think this the one I have :  Daylight Lamp on Amazon

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Andrew I have suggested that one be added to my Christmas list, one of the things I’ve thought about for a while .

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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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Ditto - thanks for the suggestion.  
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I see there are also rechargeable portable daylight lamps. And not that expensive, something to consider for the dark nights ahead.
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I use one for working on paintings etc and when photographing any work finished. I also got mine from Amazon.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I did nothing with this paining yesterday a I decided a day away com it would benefit . I am very restless and since having a spinal injury I don’t sit for long therefore I work in short bursts ten fifteen minutes and move around. Due to this pattern of working I have developed the habit of having thee or four paintings on the go at a time , but on Saturday I stare  new one and concentrated on that yesterday. It’s very rare that I don’t paint or sketch but it sometimes happens, yesterdays effort very different subject and style. There is a glare from a lamp on the right hand side of the lot photo .
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Nice to see a bit of flesh on the bare bones, Dixie. Back pain is a terrible thing to experience. I had a bit of that, some years ago, but it was only a temporary thing, thank goodness. I could almost hear myself creaking when I got up from my chair.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I sympathize - broke my back 45 years ago, and have had nothing but trouble with it since: spent most of last night connected to a TENS machine (which, Paul, if you haven't got one, you might try).  It was the only way I managed to get any sleep at all. I remember it now - the quality of care: in an understaffed Ward, with a very old man in the next bed who was a) allowed to smoke, so occasionally set his bedding on fire, and b) fell out of bed - rang the bell, no one came, I had to help him!  Hardly surprising I still have trouble, really - nor that I'm a bit cynical about the quality of medical care; but it was a long time ago.  I HOPE it's improved - indeed I know it has; but not necessarily by as much as you'd wish. Anyway, if you have to sit to paint, there it is, you just do - and ignore Sir Alfred East, and R O Dunlop, who both told us the "manly" thing to do was to "stand up to the easel": it IS better if you can, but we have to yield to reality.  
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I did a bit more on each painting this afternoon only half hour working on both , I was in doubts about the background but this evening we had a sky that was almost the same colours .
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Coming on well Paul.
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