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good evening all

4.4 today

a pleasant but chilly day here for our shopping trip and green bin day

Mum has her shopping delivered and packed away and we're back home chillin'

Well I'm trying to chill and mr gee is rattling about putting things in the storage boxes we bought this morning, he's sorting out some camera bits that were in an underbed storage box.

Hope your day is treating you well

@SlimLizzy - I don't like being cold either hope your bed dries out soon

@gennepher It's a shame that your rice/xuan paper arrived folded, so did mine but it is looking much better after spending a couple of months under a pile of heavyweight cookery books

after mine arrived I did find a link which dealt with the traditional way of mounting the stuff (because wrinkling and deformation from the ink/paint is expected). If I remember right it involved sandwiching it to a paper backing sheet on a glass or perspex sheet with a starch based paste which then allows it to dry taut like wallpaper Would dry mounting the finished painting like a photograph work do you think?

I like your 'green' themed work, it looks calming as if you're just about to step into a lighted clearing in the trees

@dunelm - I do like your sketch, especially the gentleman in the vista very authentic

art bit - this was done from a photograph I found on the net
 
Another good beside the sea painting from you. A good atmosphere and prospective I like the sweep of the bay and the rocks giving it depth
 
Floor quote in lots of £s still we shall go ahead as no money spent on holidays this year, "Before Christmas?" I asked, "I have a lot on, but might fit you in" was his reply..... we shall continue to live dangerously.....

Not much art this week as been so busy, all day at MILs today, loft almost cleared...

Lunch time I managed a quick pencil sketch along my Mountain theme. This is from a photo I had taken on my phone when camping opposite This mountain two years ago....Cader Idris
 

A couple of months! To flatten the paper! Well it's one way of making use of cookery books I suppose...

I think it might work pasting it on to white board, after painting, with a lino roller? Carefully...

Thank you for the painting compliment

Your Painting: A beautiful calming sea, and yet the water is very powerful. Gorgeous hills with all that detail in them.
 

This is a powerful little sketch @Muddy Cyclist

You are working very hard at the moment. Take care!
 

Have you tried using an iron on the paper.
Its what the butler did for his upper crust master, to take the ceases out his daily paper so he had an immaculate and straight newspaper at breakfast.
 
It does make you wonder if this is the cause of your asthma and breathing problems. It definitely could not have helped.
 
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Does he/ she have a name yet..? Have tried a few names. None seem to spark any recognition, so we reverted to Cat. Good thing really as we were trying female names. He, originally thought to be she) does not seem to respond to coaxing tone, although he clearly recognises Non! or No!
Now that Cat has worked out that the motorhome is where to get dinner am thinking of instigating a game of "find the motorhome" moving it a very short distance at first. In less than two weeks he will be Motorhome Cat.
Apparently the french for stray is Errant. Quite like that as a name, but MrSlim says Cat is fine and anyway he takes no notice of what you call him...
 
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dunelm said:
I do feel so very sorry for our ancient ones that are so bereft of human touch.
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When working as a carer, we were taught to meet this need by offering to cut their nails. Which of course involved holding hands for twenty or thirty minutes. Cutting and then filing to shape. Nobody ever never told me to get on with it...
Sometimes I would rub in hand cream as well.
 
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Errant...i like it too
 
lindisfel said:
Have you tried using an iron on the paper.
Its what the butler did for his upper crust master, to take the ceases out his daily paper so he had an immaculate and straight newspaper at breakfast.
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It wasn't just the butler that did that, I had to do that as a child as one of my tasks for my strict Victorian grandfather...
No one was allowed to read that newspaper, which was then cut into absolutely perfect squares and hung by string in the outside toilet at the end of the yard.....

The problem is, I only have one iron, and as I never iron clothes (I absolutely hate ironing with a passion), and so I used my iron for encaustic wax paintings. The iron has lots of different coloured wax in those steam holes. I am afraid it is not fit to iron delicate white paper...
 
I think Cat sounds good as a name. It is short and to the point.
 
Well, you could use a piece of cheap plain paper as an interface to enable a 'dirty' iron to be applied?
 
Good morning all. A day in part charge of 2 granddaughters all day before collecting grandson from school then feeding time before, finally, Nos 3 and 1 son retrieve their progeny. Scheduling is everything in order to obey the rule of six, especially with children, sons, plumber and carpenter next week as well - all done though. Who knew you needed a Gannt chart for minding grandchildren? My Great Deliberation has produced nothing much. Some 3.00 am to 4.00 am starts, the realisation that I'm more purple than red or blue team but fervently anti-Johnson - he is a clear and present danger to everyone I love most. For WOE all I know is I want to be around 74 kgs by eating plenty of green leafy (salad?) things and oily fish. Cooked or "faked" foods are largely out (yes I know about "bread"and Chocolgic) If fat is my power source the fish, avocado, olive oil, chia and flaxseed look like the mainstays. No idea about red meat, cheese or booze, with all of which we are stacked to the gunwales. Probably reinstall some wonderwheels after the clocks change. This WOE is very disruptive of family life but blindness, loss of limb and hospitalisation are moreso . Best wishes chums.
 
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