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Martin Norford

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An interim stage. With some equipment for good measure. I currently use the Daler Rowney Aquafine travel set. Purely because it comes with a flip over colour reference sheet. Which I find speeds up my colour choices and I like the flat tin mixing lid. 

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Looks good already Martin , the wash is sitting nicely on the paper .

Martin Norford

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I'm making this my final version.  Much learnt. 
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Very nice Martine , it’s the sign of a good artist when they can say much leant , lots of learning and experience gained when things don’t quite go well, not as much when it’s all running smoothly.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Well done - the paint sits much more happily on this paper, and I see little if any sign of cockling.  Learning is interesting - just the concept of learning is interesting, as well as the process.  Some are frightened of it, because - maybe - they think learning beyond school age is  beyond  them; some fear it because they fear to fail.  But learning is actually fun - it liberates the painting and drawing arm provided you keep at it: as you have with these versions of your picture.   While I've been painting for a very long time, I'd probably stop if I felt I knew it all (not a conclusion anyone looking  at my work would be likely to reach).  It worries me a bit when I see painters adopt a rigid method popularized by TV painters, and then just never move on from it.  I got into oil painting after reading an article in Look and Learn magazine, when I was  14 years old: ideal title, because that's what it taught you to do - I hope today's kids have something similar. Learning and practice - and there's always something new. 

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See below 

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The above is incomplete.  it should read. Interestingly my father printed the look and learn magazine.  I once visited the fleetway. Fleet street works saw his machine and the area where the artists worked. It was fascinating. My real inspiration was Tony Hart on Take Hart. Where he was always showing us unusual ways to be creative. Marvellous. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I've just realized that I was 14  years old 61+ years ago  - Lawks a mercy...  Interesting isn't it, the connections between people that crop up here (and elsewhere): your father printed the magazine which, alongside Knowledge  (a bit weightier) stimulated my curiosity and intellect well over half a century ago.....   Spooky, as Dame Edna might have said (and often did).
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Sandra Kennedy

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I really like your completed painting, nice humour there. I can tell you enjoyed doing it.
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