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Ryde roofs, work in progress
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Thank you for that Derek - while these are basically typical Isle of Wight town cottages (windows tend to be in some unexpected places, as do floors - you can enter one, raise your eyes to admire the plasterwork or dodge the beams, and suddenly descend a foot or so as the floor abruptly changes level) it doesn't work in a painting - it doesn't look right and you can't expect people to understand the vagaries of our architecture - J B Priestley described the island as Hampshire in miniature, and that applied to our buildings as well as the landscape: I do yearn for big, dramatic hills now and then, but we really don't have many; some, right on the coast's edge, and in the South East part, but we have a lot of the gentle, rolling stuff, too. Anyway! I have modified the tree somewhat, which didn't look quite right to me either, and rationalized the fenestration, shall we say. I promise myself faithfully that I'm never going to paint this small again, or at least not to try squeezing small details into such a small space.
I've also promised myself to visit the optician again and get my varifocals checked. Eight by ten inches? You mad fool, you......
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Newchurch - you can't get there from 'ere...... (Directions regularly given to tourists, and containing a smidgen of truth.)
Well if you happen to be in the region of Niton Undercliff, look in - although you'll be shocked, shocked I tell you, by the conditions in which I live. Some may think I live the life of a civilized retired gent in my apartment in a country house: little do they know that the house is perched on a landslip, half of it has had to be demolished, and that I inhabit the old kitchen in a tumbledown state even Dickens would have struggled to describe, such is its squalor.
But I do make a nice cup of coffee - people have actually lived afterwards, having consumed it!
Contact us (that's me: I live in lonely state) nearer the time if you happen to be free. You never know, the sun may be shining by then, sufficiently warming my muscles so that I can embark on a late Spring-clean, washing off the congealed fat from the floor, the accretion of cigar-smoke from the walls, and perhaps - though you'll appreciate, I can promise nothing! - I might even have found the vacuum cleaner.
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Absinthe - it makes the heart grow fonder, you know.
This damn' painting, by the way - I've finished it, I think, but I can't take a proper photo of it in my (dark and crepuscular) flat, and can't take it outside in the light, because it's blowing a gale out there again. I don't think this sort of picture is my métier at all - I keep wanting to add fine detail, with tiny brushes, but then I'd end up with a style I don't even like! And anyway, my photo and sketch references don't give me the information I'd need .... and I'm going cross-eyed: I think my eyesight has changed a bit, and it's time for my bi-annual optician's visit.... I lay a brush-stroke down, and it's about a millimetre away from where I wanted to put it.
Still - does yer good to try things you think you can't do, even if they do go and prove that actually, you were right - you can't! It does look too much like Trumpton and too little like Ryde, so I'm going to change the title to 'town roofs', or something.... I keep expecting to see Windy Miller wandering down the street; or was that Camberwick Green?
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Actually Windy Miller lives at Colley's Mill, which is just outside Camberwick Green so it's probably not him.
Following on from Sylvia's reference it could be wombats - they produce what are called poo squares (one of the few facts I remember from a pub quiz - thought I'd impart this useful bit of knowledge to fellow POO - er sorry - POL addicts) so you could pop on your best deer stalker and look out for some rather unusual brickwork.