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A lovely attempt of painting this gourd, the form and linear fold upon the skin and indentation, well done Caroline!

Thank you. I found it really hard to make the nobbly bits 2 dimensional (or do I mean 3 dimensional). I could see faint shadow, but couldn’t reproduce it.

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17/10/2023
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Loving all these Autumn fruit. I’ve tried to show this Gourd with all its nobbly bits. I didn’t have the right colours to get the very flesh coloured skin, but the vibrant streaks of golden yellow are quite close using New Gamboge with a little added cadmium orange. I sketched it first and painted in stages, then added a little more detail with my pencil at the end.

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Caroline Dally

I live and work in Berkshire as a Piano Teacher. I did two workshops on watercolour painting flowers in June 2021 and became slightly addicted. In the intervening time I have made some progress, but I am so in awe of all those skilful artists out there showing me just how much I still need to learn.…

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