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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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A 23x36 cm watercolour inspired by a photograph I took several years ago , I did post the photo a while back decided I need to try it out . I’m not doing the photo entirely I’m using the main flower and adding, taking away as I want to. I’m so far out of my comfort zones with this I need oxygen and a life line I think . The photo , sketch and initial base colours.
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Andrew Smith

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Looking good so far, Paul; looking forward to the finished piece; God bless 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Andrew. the next stage putting in a bit of detail.

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Coming along nicely, Paul.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Denise . I’ve done some more and it’s at that stage where you have doubts about how it looks , needs something more done but will hold off  for today and see what comes to mind the flower head is looking a bit on the heavy side I think.  I  still need to sort out the blue tiny flower's on the head so hopefully that will help make it look less solid .

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Looking good Dixie, love the purple and the bumble!
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No doubting Paul! It’s is coming along great!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you all for your comments, unfortunately I can’t finish this one as it had coffee spilt  onto it by a viditor, he pointed to the painting but forgot he had  a mug of  coffee in his hand. I was very polite well polite for me , he suggested thst I try washing it off , I had to explain that watercolours don’t wash that well . Keep you eye on the news for a news item headed man chocked with rolled up painting . Ah well will give it another go when I’ve calmed down a lot more. 

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Sylvia Evans

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Silly visitor....well done you Dixie for not decking him one. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I think I verbally decked him , as his wife phoned to find out what had happened he said I had been rude to him and he had never been spoken like that too before. To be honest I did not swear but made it plain what I thought of his actions. , he really can’t see why I was so upset about it , but fortunately his wife said I was right to give him a ear full as unless it’s to do with golf he can’t see the point in anything else.  Not sure he will pop around for quite sometime , probably off the Christmas card list as well, I’m still fuming about it. 
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Linda Wilson

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I always find a way to rescue paintings.  Gouache, acrylic and coloured pencils are my usual solutions to a watercolour crisis, of which I have had many!  Best of luck with it!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Aaargh!  Oh Dixie, I'd have beaten the bugger about the head with my walking stick.... so sorry to hear about this, and hope you can rescue your painting: if you can't, well, you've done it once, you can do it again.  Not understanding why you were upset?  Ye gods - what an idiot!  Anyone can make a stupid mistake, but at least acknowledge it!  I wouldn't be inviting him around to my place again, I know that..... Is it really too much to expect our friends to at least respect our work and the effort we invest in it?   Point me at him, I'll do him in for you with one of his own golf clubs...   Now then, look - a spill of coffee can ruin watercolour, acrylic, any water-based medium, but would have minimal effect on oil - so: take up oil!  I know this isn't funny, at all, but I seek to find some consolation for you!  A friend of mine - the artist Anne Toms, on whom I did an introduction a while ago, told me that a little boy who was a friend of her son's, I think, charged through her studio (read kitchen) many many years ago, knocked over her easel and the oil that was on it, flat on its face.  Her anguished shriek traumatized the poor kid, and - being Anne - she forgot about her damaged painting and consoled the boy instead, telling the little perisher not to worry, could have happened to anyone.  I HOPE I could have been as kind, but I'm not a bit sure I could have been. Still: it happens to the best of us - if you can't rescue the painting, take another crack at it, and all best wishes from, I'm sure, all of us in your attempt.  As if this business wasn't hard enough already....
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