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Denise Cat

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That's perfect Lewis, very recognizable.

Jenny Harris

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Illustrates it perfectly, Lewis!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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She live next door but one to me , how  did you know what she looked like Lew. Superb I was hopping you would take up the challenge. 
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Gillian Cooke

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Nice to put a name to a face Lewis! 😂 You do it so well

Sylvia Evans

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I know her.  Wonderful Lew.

Denise Cat

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Foxgloves from Sylvia's photo. Hope they look ok Sylvia, I picked the three main flowers in the photo. The technique, I watched on studio the other week with the acrylic on watercolour paper, I wanted to try it out again and thought this would be perfect for a practice.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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A superb painting Denise. 

Stephen Kelly

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My attempt at Sylvia's photo. I always enjoy a challenge.

Tessa Gwynne

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Couldn't resist it.  I'll have to put it here...it would make no sense in the gallery.
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You seem to have painted everyone’s next door neighbour Lew! 🤣
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Sometimes it just doesn’t work  this time it certainly failed, I wanted to try a very loose quick painting of Robert wild garlic woodlands. The painting took about ten minutes and the idea was to use rock salt to firm the flower heads , done it before and it’s worked ok, not today took the salt of when it was dry and it was just flat green underneath. Fortunately I took a photo with the salt on the painting,it looked better with it on . Here it is warts and all . 

Denise Cat

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Thanks Paul, I've tried using salt a few times and never seem to get a result from it. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with it. I think to produce a painting in ten minutes is good going. I like a challenge Stephen. I love the pink you have used and I made one colour with blue, opera rose and purple. Then made some tones from that but the opera rose in the Galeria  acrylic is so bright, I was tempted to paint everything in it.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I have deeply mixed results from using salt!  One of my best watercolours was helped a good deal by salt: actually, two of them, now I think about it.  On other occasions - NOTHING other than a rather nasty stain.   It must have something to do with the drying stage the paint is at, but I'd be really interested to know if anyone has a decisive answer: I suspect that you have to catch the paint before it's had a chance to sink into the paper; so the choice of paper is likely to be important too.   Two gorgeous paintings from Sylvia's photo.  Paul - you have my sympathy with yours (and a fat lot of good that'll do you): have another go?  Maybe use masking fluid, though I do hate the stuff - and/or, await advice from experienced salt additionists (do not look this word up, you'll never find it - but salt-adders conjured up the thought of reptiles with a preference for saline).  
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