Late, missed Friday's post as we have been busy sorting stuff from MILs bungalow and there's are still bags in the camper van untouched, never ending.
On this morning's Mountain Bike Ride we passed along a track where Cannock Chase and the boundary of Shugbourgh Hall meet. Two gates caught my eye one just a gap the other old and broken. So just did two sketches from memory in soft graphite pencil then a very quick watercolour wash, both A5. I will probably do matching paintings at some stage....
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At last, fantastic! very pleased for you both.MrSlim will be home today, not until evening though
Thank you, supervised by number 2 granddaughter.
Love the panda, the shading on the bamboo is super and cat has got the creamFor my painting today in ZenBrush2 app...
My first panda!
I need to work on making him look a little cheeky and appealing, I think. Not quite got that.
Trying the bamboo stem in a different way.
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Excellent painting today, really liked this compsition.good afternoon all
4.8 again today
a sunny day here with just a nice amount of breeze, managed to do some weeding, planted a couple of shrubs and had a walk so I count it a nice, quiet and productive day
the bruising on my forehead has settled down a bit too so at least I don't look like I've been in a fight
Hope your day is treating you well
@Muddy Cyclist - glad your ride went well, I find the combination of exercise and outdoors quite therapeutic myselfthat's a very fine pencil sketch, I like your treatment of the different trees
@dunelm - I like your sunlit, serried bamboo very much
@gennepher - interesting to see how you achieve different stroke effects and the sparrows add a touch of happy insoucianceglad you won your auction
art bit -
I must admit @gennepher whilst I find it interesting to try out different things, I don't think that level of foreground busyness is natural to my style. Hope this is more soothing
Quite pleased with how it turned out.
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Late, missed Friday's post as we have been busy sorting stuff from MILs bungalow and there's are still bags in the camper van untouched, never ending.
On this morning's Mountain Bike Ride we passed along a track where Cannock Chase and the boundary of Shugbourgh Hall meet. Two gates caught my eye one just a gap the other old and broken. So just did two sketches from memory in soft graphite pencil then a very quick watercolour wash, both A5. I will probably do matching paintings at some stage....
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My daily painting in ZenBrush2 app
This was not meant to be my finished painting, I was simply practising bamboo leaves. And how to get the shape with my different fingers. Because my little finger will give a certain shape with an upward flick, but my first finger when I do the flick it is a downward flick. And so I was experimenting how the shape and flick looked with my different fingers.
(As an aside, I dictated the above to my iPad, it was exactly what I said. But then before my eyes the iPad software changed what I had said, and so then it went and changed the previous previous sentence...and so on. And what emerged was a piece of sexual innuendo. Nothing to do with what I wrote originally. It did not used to do this. It is only relatively recently after an update it's gone bananas. I won't say what I would like to do to the programmer...)
And so, I decided to leave the play with the leaves as it stood, and added some sparrows.
Now I need to lie down with my smelling salts...no, not because of the above, but I made a bid against others on eBay, and there is less than half hour left, and I am the winning bid so far. I had just bought something else from the same seller this morning, which is a straight purchase, and I emailed and asked if I won the bid, would he consider posting the two items in one postage. He sent me a message back saying yes, if I won the bid, and so that gives me nearly another £6 to play with if there is a last minute bidding war.
I have never bid against anyone else on eBay before. This is more tense than the auction rooms in real life. A real life auction bid is easier (as long as you realise the increments it is going up by) and over in a matter of a couple of minutes...(I did tend to prolong an auction a bit with being deaf, checking with the auctioneer I was bidding the amount I thought I was, well with being deaf I cannot hear exactly what is going on...)
Oh, here is my painting...
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Thank you, I will put the paintings on my Done List once I get around to doing them.Great pair of sketches and looking forward to seeing the paintings
Panda looks happy and content, bamboo is wonderful I like that shading. I noted Popeye put his signature on it.For my painting today in ZenBrush2 app...
My first panda!
I need to work on making him look a little cheeky and appealing, I think. Not quite got that.
Trying the bamboo stem in a different way.
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And it worked very well looks like it's been executed by an ancient master of Zenbrush2 a well executed scene, I like it very much.Tried using a background ‘wallpaper’ for this picture.
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