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gennepher said:
Wow, to the first picture, a play with flowers @dunelm
It looks an amazing fantasy painting to me. I don't know if it is my tired eyes (they are still tired and a bit blurred this morning), or something you intentionally did, but I see the silhouette of a lady's face in the middle with a pearl necklace, and above to the left of her forehead is the picture of the apex of a house roof and the cascading garden below it...

All I have had this morning is a coffee with fresh cream...

I love the dry brushwork of the imposing mountains and the trees down below showing a sense of scale...brilliant!

Enjoy your walk, even if it is in the rain!
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Thank you @gennepher the flowers were fun to play with but can I get a line of whatever it is you are snorting :watching::hungover::wideyed::woot:

Had a wonderful walk through the marshes and then down the beach, lunch in a pub and then found some colour brush pens to play with.

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dunelm said:
Thank you @gennepher the flowers were fun to play with but can I get a line of whatever it is you are snorting :watching::hungover::wideyed::woot:

Has a wonderful walk through the marshes and then down the beach, lunch in a pub and then found some colour brush pens to play with.

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Sorry, it was just coffee and double cream I was drinking this morning...

I love playing with fibre brush tip colour pens :)
 
lindisfel said:
Sorry Dunelm, but the comment still applies ,you were in the South Atlantic war.
You fooled me landing on Hoy and going up the Old Man! :)
D.
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@lindisfel, Royal Corps of Signals but only for 27 years. Hoy and the Old Man was due to being in an airportable brigade - I know, don’t even go there. We did more work on assault ships than in aircraft although Brize Norton was very familiar. On that occasion it was practice beach assaults on Hoy - in the freezing spring - not as jolly as the exercise the year before in the Caribbean. I was (are) trained as a rock climbing instructor and mountain leader and can jump downwards quite a long way. South Atlantic trip was embedded with 3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment. Still enjoy walking in mountains.
 
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dunelm said:
Thank you @gennepher the flowers were fun to play with but can I get a line of whatever it is you are snorting :watching::hungover::wideyed::woot:

Had a wonderful walk through the marshes and then down the beach, lunch in a pub and then found some colour brush pens to play with.

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Three works of art from you today, all with their own merits. I liked the landscape this morning, abstractness of those last flowers and the the combination of colour, rare for you. Sounds like your days gone well.
 
Not having done watercolour for a few days I feel I have gone backwards. Decided to attack Rannoch Moore and add depth with a distant valley probably before it drops to Glenco but nor sure it's working, too much black and not moody enough. I have walked away from it and see if I can rescue the piece Friday... but here it is so far.
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Muddy Cyclist said:
Not having done watercolour for a few days I feel I have gone backwards. Decided to attack Rannoch Moore and add depth with a distant valley probably before it drops to Glenco but nor sure it's working, too much black and not moody enough. I have walked away from it and see if I can rescue the piece Friday... but here it is so far.
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A good start @Muddy Cyclist
You will do some good work with it tomorrow.
 
good evening all :)

4.5 this morning

off out today to the charity big shed to swap out mr. gee's catalogue and repair work for the week, now we're just going in to pick up the quarantined things donated during the week and take back the items which could be repaired and cleaned, ready tagged for sale from last week's pick up ;)

when we got back the weather had moved from 'miserable and overcast' to sunny so we had a good walk round the village :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)

@SlimLizzy - well so long as 'cat' is happy, though the French version is pleasing too :)

@gennepher - that's a lovely painting, it sparks so many mental images, big hug for your trying day though, glad today is looking a bit calmer :)

@dunelm - three interesting images with their range of brush strokes, the coloured brush pens look like an interesting tool to try and they make a joyous splash of colour :)

@Alien Aspie - interesting image, you've achieved a real fluid look :)

@Muddy Cyclist - I like your pencil sketch very much it has a great feeling of depth and I can already feel the distant landscape of your new work :) looking forward to seeing it's development.

art bit - didn't do any art yesterday :sorry: ended up reading so will have to catch up over the next couple of days.

this one was a calm morning, all the valleys were full of mist, the land spit used to be a ferry point many years ago

sorry for the weird splats at the top left hand corner where the paint got under the tape holding the paper down :sorry:

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JohnEGreen said:
My glass is full but the bottle is empty.:angelic:
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Come,
fill the glass,
and in the fires of autumn
your flask of summer wine
empty to the bottom!
Sweet bird of youth
has all Fall long to fly,
And cor! --
A blackbird's slipped out of the pie!
 
15.10 2020
8.30am FBG 6.1
There are so many different tasks to be done. And only finite time. Am finding it difficult to prioritise. Some jobs i want to do, in the garden, may not be essential, but are nagging at my mind. Visiting my French friends has been repeatedly put off. Now that is also becoming a background you should. My French friends live in a small town nearby, unfortunately it's not good for shopping, being expensive and lacking many essential, to me, items. So shopping is done in a different town in the opposite direction
 
Thanks Dunelm,
Many lives are really fascinating and you've had a particularly exciting one.
Call me nosey by I love to know what makes people tick.
Best wishes to you and yours
Derek

dunelm said:
@lindisfel, Royal Corps of Signals but only for 27 years. Hoy and the Old Man was due to being in an airportable brigade - I know, don’t even go there. We did more work on assault ships than in aircraft although Brize Norton was very familiar. On that occasion it was practice beach assaults on Hoy - in the freezing spring - not as jolly as the exercise the year before in the Caribbean. I was (are) trained as a rock climbing instructor and mountain leader and can jump downwards quite a long way. South Atlantic trip was embedded with 3rd Bn The Parachute Regiment. Still enjoy walking in mountains.
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SlimLizzy said:
15.10 2020
8.30am FBG 6.1
There are so many different tasks to be done. And only finite time. Am finding it difficult to prioritise. Some jobs i want to do, in the garden, may not be essential, but are nagging at my mind. Visiting my French friends has been repeatedly put off. Now that is also becoming a background you should. My French friends live in a small town nearby, unfortunately it's not good for shopping, being expensive and lacking many essential, to me, items. So shopping is done in a different town in the opposite direction
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OK so either your French friends live in my new town, or I have moved to their town! Stores here have high prices and don't stock many essentials. And I can't even say this town was founded by French traders; they didn't paddle up this particular river. ;)
 
Good morning everyone from a Fabulous Friday in the dark and dangerous north

The wonder wheel of courgette “linguine carbonara” came in at 5.2 this am

Spiffing day yesterday and all local. We are so lucky to have so much diverse open space right on the doorstep and within walking distance; North Yorkshire Moors, beaches, parks and salt marshes (run by the Wildlife Trusts).

Today is a bit of a blank slate but walking will be involved. The BBC weather page of lies and deception talk it up about light cloud and some gentle breezes with only a 9% chance of rain - but they would say that would’t they.

My mother, who taught Chinese art for several decades, thinks I should move onto Chrysanthemum - one of the Four Gentlemen of Chinese brush painting (plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum). Ah well, we have to look after our parents so here we go.
Have a wonderful Friday. I am heading for the koffy pot.

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