Laurel and Hardy
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The second of three designs for a 1000 piece jigsaw, which didn't make the press (See "Bond" and "Friends" for the other two). As ever with composites such as this, the research and design stages, sourcing and selecting suitable images, composing, re-scaling, arranging, adding, deleting and so on before actually beginning the final product, takes a huge amount of time. I recall I was surprised not to be able to find an image of an exasperated Ollie; the soot-faced image of him, centre left, was my own invention. I would love to do more; they are such a gift for an artist. Pencil drawing on a large scale..
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Brian Smith
I am a Sheffield-based professional artist working primarily in watercolour but I sketch from life prolifically in all sorts of media to hone skills and preserve memories, and I enjoy dabbling with pastels. I run three structured courses per week in watercolour, provide 1:1 tution, co-run life…
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