Tintagel Old Post building

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This is well painted Nancy , and its a lovely part of the world I had a few holidays there in my forties and it was wonderful. Well done Nancy.

Posted by dennis roberts on Fri 22 Jan 08:06:58

What a beautiful result Nancy another gem

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Fri 22 Jan 08:36:16

Thank you both so much for your likes and for your kind comments. :) Really appreciate it!

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Fri 22 Jan 08:52:54

It is alive and truly kicking Nancy. lovely tchnique, have another go if you want but this suits me.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Fri 22 Jan 09:59:43

Great washes, splodges and splatters - love it ( I know Tintagel cottage -it used to be a post office) - you've captured the slate & granite well Nancy

Posted by lynne whitfield on Fri 22 Jan 10:34:46

Oh this is beautiful too.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Fri 22 Jan 10:36:09

It's come together beautifully Nancy from your previous sketches. The washes, splatters and lively brush marks describe the old place perfectly.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 22 Jan 16:20:15

Thanks everyone!

Posted by Nancy Farrar Coughlin on Fri 22 Jan 19:24:02

Hang on Studio Wall

22/01/2016

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The way the old roof sways up and down, hard to believe it is of stone or slate, it reminds me a bit of a Hobbit's home.....which I love. Again, playing with ideas, this is a draft. Watercolor, lots of spatter and wet into wet. There is a bit of pastel, but you can't really tell in the photo.....still sorting thru ideas....what to do? how to achieve what is in my head and make this awesome 1300's building come to life in a painting ? ideas?

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Nancy Farrar Coughlin

I have recently escaped to the coast, to Grays Harbor in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. I love nature, being outdoors, the ocean as well as the woods. I am grateful for life, after a ruptured appendix and a year of healing recently; I am treasuring every day! It was time to move…

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