good evening all
was 4.6 this morning
cooler last night which improved the chances of sleep
a quietish day today after our day out volunteering yesterday. We had a damp and misty start but now the sun is out and the temperature is going up again, good job Katy had her clip on Monday, a big standard poodle with long hair has just walked along the street outside our house with it's owner and the poor thing looked so hot and miserable
Hope your day is treating you kindly
@ianpspurs - late to the party because I had to catch up reading but congratulations on your latest test coming back with good results
@dunelm three stunning artworks, I liked the treescape with the orchids in the foreground very much and your latest has a lovely, simple elegance of line which is not easy to achieve.
@gennepher - I'm enjoying the way this app is performing for you and I love how you use deep contrasts and vibrant colours, I especially like the moon and seascape
@Muddy Cyclist - Hugs for the black marks on the carpet
good to see the beginnings and then the finished work, I like to see the different stages, it's instructive
Nice finished painting, you're always so good at rendering the light, though I can understand why you added a wash of purple into the deep shadows and should imagine it would enhance that area (I find handling purple a bit tricky myself because it seems to depend so much on the shade you use
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Interesting composition for the next painting and I look forward to seeing it
art bit - thank you all for your kind comments on my 'John Blockley' style
I enjoyed trying it , perhaps I'll do another, it's a bit different from my usual
I quite like to do flowers and plants but I'm inclined to fiddle about too much so here are a couple of the letterbox style things
no 1 - I'm an oldie so a base pallet is Red/Blue/Yellow to me but I notice that a some people now use Cyan/Magenta/Yellow - is this because of the influence of light mixing for digital media ?
quick experiment using it for a change
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no 2 - my usual - seascape with cliff just because
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