TOWARDS SNOWDONIA 2 by Sylvia Evans

Excellent stuff Sylvia. Our relatives who live at Pwllehli, keep telling us that Snowdonia is snow capped all year, or is that just Snowden? interesting, on brown wrapping paper, trouble is wrapping paper eventually goes brittle and will fall apart. best Mick

Lovely colours as always. Great atmosphere. I suspect Mick is right about the paper ...

Seems like a day of experiments all round and this is another which has paid off well - love the semi abstract nature of the work.

Yes I think Mick probably is right about the paper. But it was quite satisfying to work on. Sometimes a pristine sheet of expensive white paper is so inhibiting . But wrapping paper....just let rip !

I painted a portrait - donkey's years ago - of Ho Chi Minh on brown wrapping paper: I wonder if it was as good as I remember it..... almost certainly not..... But then, it's probably disintegrated into nothingness by now..... I can still remember it, then, as a great portrait..... Ahem. Recollecting myself from that reverie, congratulations, Slyvia, and of course while the paper may disintegrate and fade into the farthest corners of complete buggery, it will live online! You're immortal Slyvia, er, Sylvia, and so are we all! Oh Gawd........

Watcha on Robert....I want some...Ho Chi Min. Different!

I was sure I left a comment on this, oh well, it's great of course Sylvia, and interesting to me of course cos it's in pastel, just seen your comment on my granddaughter Chloe's pastel portrait I did of her, I just left reply for Graham on my Robin bird pastel he commented on, who said same as you about Chloe's teeth in my pastel, I am going to remove it, fix it, and repost it, your comments made me look back at the last pastel portrait I did of her, the fun one in the close up webcam shot of her and her dad and I did indeed handle the teeth very differently in that and they worked much better on that one, this pastel of her is worth fixing and reposting I think because I know the rest of it is pretty good, silly isnt it that I had not noticed myself how bad the teeth looked on this portrait of her, sometimes we as artists are our own worst critics because we can't always see what is in front of us! I guess we spend so long working so closely on these works that the image we think we have rendered is not always how other people are going to see it and this is a clear example of that!!xx

Hi Sylvia, thanks for your lovely comment on my latest pastel dog portrait of the Dalmation, glad you like it, the original photo had a really good eye on it so I am glad I seem to have done it justice!