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How could you be bored with your 80th birthday coming up? Party, cake, bunting and frolics..... like the Indian red and Payne's Grey mix - why is it I wonder that this works well in watercolour, but if you tried it in oil, and probably acrylic, you'd get a slithery sludge? Well, because they're formulated differently, that's why - but it does go to show it's not always possible to use the same mixes in one medium as you do in others.......

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sat 10 Aug 15:18:10

Your ramblings are far from boring Alan, and I do like how you try various colours out. Another gem from your gallery.

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Sat 10 Aug 16:12:28

Just seen Robert's posting on the forum about your 80th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN and long may you thrill us all with your delightful paintings and amuse us too with your warm and feeling ramblings -certainly never boring.

Posted by Carol Hitchman on Sat 10 Aug 16:30:57

cheers every one,,,, but let see ..ah well yes,,I am one of the the babys on here ...

Posted by Alan Owen on Sat 10 Aug 16:49:07

Hang on Studio Wall

01/04/2015

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thank guys for your comments on the townscape ...but as you know when you are not sure of what to paint ,and you go ahead with nothng in mind ,things never turn out just as you like them..and today was same but thought this excercise would help bring me out of my bordom I decided to try and see how the colour of my trees were effected by the sky colour and the foreground ,so I decided to use an indian red and paynes grey mix for my trees against the blue of the sky.and for the foreground I mixed raw sienna with a touch of indian red ,then i dirtied it with a touch of winsor blue for the cloud shadows in the fore ground i managed to while a way an hour while my wife was still in noddy land ,and lost my melloncholy for an hour cheers. for listening to my boring ramblings

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Alan Owen

I began watercoloring when I was eleven years old that was in 1940 for the rest of my life I painted,,, I was an indentured painter and decorator ,,,travelling ,, I went to art school for four years 1944 --1948 release from my indentures ,then joined the army. I was a sign painter for my…

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