Conkers and acorns

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Hi Peter - I enjoyed your prose as much as the picture, - could just see those boys clacking their sticks against the horse chesnut, a very vivid image came to mind - super!

Posted by Debs Jones on Wed 26 Oct 09:43:15

The simplicity of the image, the colour and the relationship between the two items and their shape seems to work so well, it has a freshness and vitality to it and your script adds that little extra.

Posted by sarah ball on Wed 26 Oct 21:47:32

The simplicity of the image, the colour and the relationship between the two items and their shape seems to work so well, it has a freshness and vitality to it and your script adds that little extra.

Posted by sarah ball on Wed 26 Oct 21:47:51

Thank you Debs and Sarah. Your thoughts are most appreciated :-)

Posted by Peter Gander on Fri 28 Oct 19:16:34

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31/03/2015

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Autumn in England. Conkers and acorns. Whilst out walking the dog I crunched underfoot this unfeasibly long acorn, minus its little cradling, egg-cup-like stalk. It was bigger than a nearby conker which was missed by schoolboys looking for bigger prizes as they clacked their sticks up at the boughs of the horse chestnut, shielding their faces as the sticks came down again, peeking hopefully at a shower of prize conkers, thudding on the wet grass, nestled inside alien spiky green cases. Winsor & Newton watercolour and charcoal on handmade Indian Khadi (210gsm) rough paper.

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