FEATHER.

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How wonderful to have found this gem in the attic.

Posted by Pat Harrison on Sun 17 Feb 06:52:59

Love the delicate floaty bits of feather, good markings too.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sun 17 Feb 15:31:16

Lovely painting !

Posted by Beverley James on Sun 17 Feb 16:03:47

This is an example of your personal delight beauty...Wonderful, Sylvia, I love this sort of record of feeling! Cheers.

Posted by Ruth Dolan on Sun 17 Feb 18:24:18

As usual lovely comments , thanks. Not quite in the attic Pat, but in a buried sketch book. The floaty bits were fun to do , the whole thing was wet into wet so I used a cocktail stick to pull them outwards. Ruth you are so right ( nice to hear from you ) some things are so lovely it is a joy to paint them...they just lend themselves. Yet no way can I do those beautifully executed Botanical paintings.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Sun 17 Feb 18:38:37

Really effective, love the wispy lower feathers.

Posted by Lesley Dabson on Mon 18 Feb 09:39:10

Lovely very precise work Sylvia, we can feel the softness of the feather, looks like it could be picked up!

Posted by Ros Patterson on Wed 20 Feb 15:18:56

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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I did this an age ago. It is ( I think, a Buzzard feather) we have lots of Buzzies over here. I found it in the garden, I love found objects, stones and shells etc. Anyhow rediscovered, water colour on cartridge paper.

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Sylvia Evans

Sylvia Evans. I am mainly a self taught artist, though I did spend a year at Rochdale School of Art in the late 1950’s. I was then made to get a “Proper Job” by my father, so I spent the next few years in a nursing career. I married and had a family, just picking up a pencil to amuse my…

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