Jack in the rattle

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Another super sketch, Michael.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Thu 24 May 06:45:14

Great painting. Full of life.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 24 May 07:06:41

Thanks Seth and Gudrun.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 24 May 07:40:01

Lovely use of limited pallette, 😀

Posted by Linda Drury on Thu 24 May 09:45:14

Thanks Linda.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Thu 24 May 09:46:15

You are so good at painting figures Michael and this is another cracker.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Thu 24 May 21:57:04

Thanks Margaret.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Fri 25 May 06:43:05

Hang on Studio Wall

23/05/2018

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Watercolour using indigo and cobalt blue. When you’re ‘in the rattle’ in the Royal Navy you’re in big trouble. Here two regulators (RN Police) or ‘crushers’ are taking Jack to ‘bang him up’ in the clink.

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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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