She knew her onions

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:))) love the painting Michael good background colour too.

Posted by Rachel Mansell on Tue 22 May 13:25:59

Really like your "loose" figure work, must try some watercolour ones, mine tend to be precise. Impressive Michael.

Posted by Richard Cooper on Tue 22 May 14:10:29

Thanks Rachel and Richard. She is almost in an Irish dancing mode. Let yourself go Richard. I'm always accused of being loose. Art should be about freedom, freedom, freedom.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Tue 22 May 14:37:39

I would love to be able to paint figures like you , Michael.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Tue 22 May 15:35:21

Thanks for your kindness Seth. There's lots of advice on Youtube. I like the spontaneous drawing with the brush straight onto the paper. You don't have to waste good watercolour paper, use anything to practice. It's addictive and you see yourself getting better the more you do. I like Trevor Waugh. Try https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHIOpAg2ybo

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Tue 22 May 16:16:22

Brilliant...and brilliant advice, too!

Posted by Thalia Stones on Tue 22 May 16:54:23

Thanks Thalia.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Tue 22 May 17:01:16

Beautiful figure, Michael.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Tue 22 May 18:23:40

Thanks Cesare.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Tue 22 May 19:38:16

Has she packed her bag and on her way after the onion episode Michael, she looks as though she’s doing a hop, skip and a jump! Great figure.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Tue 22 May 20:22:37

Great figure work Michael.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Tue 22 May 20:27:31

Michael you make me laugh, what a tale! Anyway she looks lovely, the main girl in Riverdance :)

Posted by Carole Swingler on Tue 22 May 22:30:59

Wonderful anecdote to accompany a lovely painting!

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 24 May 07:30:42

Thanks Fiona, Margaret, Carole and Gudrun. Yes Fiona, she was too fastidious.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 24 May 08:32:05

Hang on Studio Wall

22/05/2018

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Art class this morning. Watercolour. A girlfriend who discovered some dried onion in my beard three days after I’d eaten a beef Burger with onions.

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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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