Boatyard

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Nice sketch, Michael, lovely colours.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Thu 04 Aug 18:54:00

Thanks Cesare. Do you fancy a short project on surrealism. You could use Freud I could use Goffman?

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 04 Aug 19:02:10

Great story and this time I do believe you as there isn't a naked woman in sight Mick. Lovely little watercolour.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Thu 04 Aug 20:03:58

Thanks Adele. I'm actually watching 'would I lie to you' on Dave right now.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 04 Aug 20:23:44

Michael....this is just great....am actually laughing out loud.... I nearly posted a comment on your earlier work on a chap in Portsmouth....I was born in the Royal Marine Barracks on Southsea seafront.....was it my Dad in the sauna????

Posted by Sylvia Pawson on Thu 04 Aug 21:44:41

Hi Sylvia. Thanks, pleased you laughed. No, I doubt whether he was a marine. He was very puny and talked in a high pitched voice. He said his name was Rupert. I don't think there has ever been a Royal Marine called Rupert.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 04 Aug 22:16:51

Great impressionistic piece Michael

Posted by Michael Edwards on Fri 05 Aug 08:08:25

Thanks Michael.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Fri 05 Aug 08:57:19

Great colours! Lively.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Fri 05 Aug 10:55:38

Ha ha! I think you would be a natural on a programme like that Mick, which is a kind of backhanded compliment!

Posted by Adele Elgood on Fri 05 Aug 11:41:56

Thanks Gudrun and Adele.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Fri 05 Aug 12:04:29

Hang on Studio Wall

04/08/2016

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Pencil sketch and watercolour wash. Based on Doust's sketching manual. My maternal family were all seafarers. My Granda, a deviant but apparently a very good artist, had a boat on the River Wear at Sunderland. He was out fishing in it with my uncle Charlie when they argued and my Granda punched Charlie and knocked him out of the boat. Poor Charlie got no assistance from my Granda. Charlie had to swim ashore, some distance as they were in the middle of the river. If you check the 1911 Census you will find Stephen Brewster Hendey, my Granda, in Durham Prison, on another totally unrelated matter. What a pirate! That's the English side of the family. The Irish side were all law abiding, but just as interesting.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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