Cregneash - Harry Kelly's Cottage

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Excellent pastel work Bobbie I think the pastel has worked particularly well on the white buildings .

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Wed 31 Aug 15:10:37

Great pastel work Bobbie.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Wed 31 Aug 15:32:25

I like this Bobbie, sounds like you had a good trip

Posted by Heather Love on Wed 31 Aug 15:32:29

Thank you all. I chose to paint the cottages because when I began the tops of the surrounding hills were hidden in mist and low cloud, which gradually lifted and then came down again. The challenges of plein air painting!!

Posted by Bobbie Matulja on Wed 31 Aug 15:46:34

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31/08/2022

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I've just returned from 10 days on the Isle of Man. While I was there, I managed find a few hours to work en plein air at Cregneash, a living museum which shows what Manx rural life was like 100 years ago. It's impossible to carry wet canvasses on a motorbike, so I painted Harry Kelly's cottage and the surrounding buildings in pastels on brown MiTientes paper.

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Bobbie Matulja

I'm a busy Churchwarden from a rural parish in South Shropshire. I've been painting and drawing for 13 years - so I would describe myself as an experienced amateur. I'm a member of Ludlow Art Society and the Ludlow Friday Group, who paint landscape en plein air during the summer months with…

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