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Gloucester Plein Air Day Saturday 20 July 2019. by Tessa Gwynne

Gloucester Plein Air Day Saturday 20 July 2019.
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This is a really complex scene painted with such zest Tessa. Love all the interesting characters and objects. Good luck with the competition Tessa.

Many thanks Carole, the competition has been and gone, judged on the day! I now appreciate better the time constraints of tv competitions where you’re given four hours to complete a piece! Very difficult when people want to stop and chat, Altai do enjoy that side of it too.

Complex scene well painted Tessa

I think a composite is a rather good idea Tessa, fabulous work without doubt!

Many thanks Shaun and Alan.

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This was my entry into the competition last Saturday and is oil on board 16x20”. I decided having done a recce a few days before, to do a composite painting of scenes around the city centre including the docks. I actually decided I tried to put too much in, but it is what it is, and was great fun to do. I started with the shape of the Cathedral door, then added various sights and scenes around the area. I have tweaked since, adding some detail. In hindsight maybe I should have settled for one scene! Maybe next year.

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Tessa Gwynne

I have returned to painting over the last sixteen years or so, having relocated from Cardiff to the Cotswolds in 2009 and joined the Guiting Power Art Group. Although I did a year's Foundation Course at Cardiff art college after leaving school, I hadn’t painted much in the interim, except for a few…

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