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Similar painting today to yesterday's sketch. This is the finished A4 watercolour taken from the sketch. Slitting Mill farm land looking to Cannock Chase on a wet afternoon.

Painted whilst listening to Haydn's Stabat Mater.
 
Was interesting seeing the Northumberland miners art exhibition a few years ago.They were tough guys working below ground in a narrow seam. It must have counterbalanced their work finding expression in art.

 
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Not sure how Holkham fits into The Fens - definitely Breckland - but an interesting collection of art based on Fenland. Quite homesick with some of the locations but it is the sky in Sunrise and Dusk that tug at the heart http://www.ashwinstudio.co.uk/fenland-landscapes.php. Maybe one day I too will be able to say: I came through and I shall return (Thanks George)
 
One poet spoke about the open sky of Lincolnshire. The Holland district of Lincs is like that.

 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Similar painting today to yesterday's sketch. This is the finished A4 watercolour taken from the sketch. Slitting Mill farm land looking to Cannock Chase on a wet afternoon.
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Painted whilst listening to Haydn's Stabat Mater.
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Looks very wet, like today in these parts - I particularly like the trees in the background and that fence line with the watery sky and path. Haydn - I can see that being very calming - even though the subject matter is a bit tragic. Not in any way religious but the music and art and the odd building - fab.
 
Wonderful bag of art - boats, water, , skies, trees - I do like the trees - and some interesting arty quotes.
 
good evening all

4.4 this morning

we took Mum to her bank today and followed on with lunch out
so, by the time we got back to Mum's, spoke to the contractor working across the road who's a friend of mr gee's, played fetch in the garden with Katy and drank tea that's most of the day gone

hope your Friday is treating you well

@gennepher - nice autumnal feeling to your landscape, I like the stile interested to see what you do with the light if you decide to work on it.

@dunelm - quite dark in that wood, but the branches with the light filtering through from behind are effective

@Alien Aspie - striking composition and the waterfall is very well rendered

@Muddy Cyclist - always interesting to see how you translate the sketch into the finished work. That patch of light through the trees give is a nice focal point and the surface of the track works very well

art bit -
wow, brushes are a minefield area soooo many brushes

this one's pretty self explanatory, it's just a bit of a neighbours' garden wall, all watercolour this time.

 
Thankyou and snap, fallen by the way side Methodist, still love the music thus my interest in West Gallery Music and Sheffield Carols.
 
Oh dear, you will have Offa turning in his grave roaming around Mercia like that.

 
Thank you.

You are so good at walls and bricks, very well captured subject, colours and composition of brick spot on.

Brushes, hmmm, I have one very large pointed round brush, several sizes of riggers, fans I seldom use, and one large and small flat. Lots of others but the ones I mentioned are the ones that get most used. Most used large pointed round for washes and some fine lines, riggers of all sizes side ways on for textured washes, the flat for mostly removing colour.
 

Thank you @geefull

A beautiful gentle painting of the garden wall.
 

no words, just...

 

i doubt many pay attention to the guidelines, @SlimLizzy

and while i will bemoan the govt... we do seem to be doing better (2 weeks behind ? ) then other places in Europe.
so while the leics etc are locked down, i very much doubt it's followed religiously.

presume London's like Paris in some respects,
local able to converse will poo poo the police and get away with it.

but we both know the press will dress up other countries as being much worse then theirs.

despite my obvious concerns, life has been near normal since late June in many way.
before that driving was dangerous, and thrilling .
you COULD be stopped,
now i go where i like nothing happens.

i wear a mask in supermarkets others don't
i don't wear a mask on street others do.

horses for courses.
we all assess our own PERSONAL risks.

and others who should be judging risks,, aka the police, don't bother.
or so it seems.

Lockdown ONE had a chance of making this better.
but we snafued that up totally.


Now we WON'T get lockdown 2, because no one will adhere to it.

come on home.
the waters lovely.
 

that's a path many are having to take.
and while we TRY to be sensible,
those family binds are hard to break

hug..DON'T hug.
shake hands ..DON'T shake hands.

GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY,
as charged your honour.

as are you and oh so many of loving and caring for those you
love and care about.

what an awful disease this is.
 

a hug for the gouges, but a BIG thumbs up for shaking it off with such fine words.

smarts doesn't it,

but then you get to watch the scab grow
and THEN pick it off...OOOOHHH
 
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