Entrance to the Secret Garden

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Beautiful! Love all the techniques here Barry.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Mon 18 Mar 07:03:37

Thank you Carole, good result and lots of fun to do.

Posted by Barry Hulme on Mon 18 Mar 07:24:35

Works really well Barry, love the rigger branches!

Posted by Alan Bickley on Mon 18 Mar 08:07:28

Good result, Barry.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Mon 18 Mar 08:33:46

Lovely stuff Barry

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Mon 18 Mar 08:38:24

Your textures look really good Barry and I'm glad you left the door open slightly so we can walk in. You should now paint the secret garden on the other side😄. A fab painting.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Mon 18 Mar 09:00:37

Thank you Alan, Cesare, Dennis and Margaret. Rigger branches done with my trusty sharpened matchstick Alan, if I do inside it will have to be made up Margaret.

Posted by Barry Hulme on Mon 18 Mar 09:24:46

It's sure interesting Barry, both in topic and execution. I'd actually like to see a version of this in your old style. Good work either way.

Posted by Jim Morris on Mon 18 Mar 09:27:46

Thank you Jim, I would like to say my old style will continue to dominate it’s taken me too long to cultivate to abandon and I may well tackle this subject using my usual approach.

Posted by Barry Hulme on Mon 18 Mar 09:36:50

Good to experiment Barry and this has has worked very well.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Mon 18 Mar 09:45:05

Love the character you've instilled in this painting Barry, another nice one.

Posted by Willie Drea on Mon 18 Mar 12:42:41

Thank you Stephen and Willie I am pleased I think it is very easy to overdo these techniques and luckily I stopped before that point.

Posted by Barry Hulme on Mon 18 Mar 13:38:10

Hang on Studio Wall

18/03/2019

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Experimenting with techniques to give the effect of texture in my watercolours. I have used salt ,splatter, with paint and clean water, drawn in with pencils and towards the end I have used dry bush and waterproof ink. The subject is from an photo I took near the church at Long Melford.

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Barry Hulme

I started painting in 2004, I am influenced by Wesson, Seago and many of the great masters, more recently I enjoy the work of Steve Hall, John Hoar and Alvaro Castignet to name but a few. I paint in a loose style and try to simplify as I can. The medium I enjoy most is watercolour but dabble with…

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