Retired Railway Man

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Lovely tonal values and you have captured the sunlight beautifully. A very nice portrayal of a more genteel era.

Posted by Anonymous User on Tue 08 Apr 17:58:27

Superb work for charcoal - I just make a ghastly mess with the stuff so I admire anyone who can produce such a great drawing with it.

Posted by Thea Cable on Tue 08 Apr 23:20:37

Thank you both. It is on quite a large sheet of what I believe is or was called sugar paper, it was tinted grey. I used chalk for the whites.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Wed 09 Apr 02:21:18

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13/04/2015

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The once stationmaster and his dog at our local station. Charocal from a newspaper photo.

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Derek Snowdon

Eleventyeight as my hashing pals called my new age recently, it's supposed to sound better. Trying to paint every day in acrylics using only expired credit/debit cards, and partially succeeding as they're only for me and not show these days.

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