Heavy metal
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Acrylic painting, close up of the keys on a tuba. I've painted several musical instrument sections (play a clarinet myself), and for this one I visited an orchestra friend of my mum's to get some photos of the tuba. Well... he didn't just have the one tuba, he had hundreds. All different shapes and sizes, and ages. New ones, second hand, or cut the bell off one and attached it to another, or built entirely from scratch using many broken bits from other instruments he'd collected over the years.
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Helen Martell
I've been painting (acrylics) for about 12 years, after going on a painting day with my mother. I guess I've always been creative (it's in the family genes), not always with paint. Over the decade it started mainly with pet portraits, as word got around my workplace that my stuff wasn't too bad..…
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