Pot Plant
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The weekly challenge set by my art club this week was ‘Pot Plant’. My Christmas Cactus, the only pot plant other than a scraggly looking orchid, was devoid of flowers so I painted an imaginary plant. I painted it with limited colours on a piece of cartridge paper, lots of pigment, lots of water and controlled some of the runs with kitchen roll. It looks a bit rough but it pleases me.
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Denis Pickles
I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 83 years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…
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