dunelm
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Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - I am playing about with a cut down brush today and also a wolf hair brush on bleedproof marker paper to see what happens - same artist, different paper.
Thank you @Muddy Cyclist - I am playing about with a cut down brush today and also a wolf hair brush on bleedproof marker paper to see what happens - same artist, different paper.Nice piece from you, I like the scale the boat gives the tree and the reflections in the water, good colour also. I can see what you mean by the Looser Style of brushwork, look forward to more and also some fallen blossom art.
I had very sadly gained about 6lb over the various lockdowns. All.of it had gone around my waist. So another 2 1/2 lbs to go to get back to my ideal weight. Then I will have a dilemma because any more weight loss and I start looking too slender.That sounds good. Did you actually need to lose weight and inches? In my mind's eye you are a svelte, elegant lady of impeccable taste so I now envisage Mr K needing x-ray specs to find ya once the dressing on your head goes. Maybe add some leucine powder to your breakfast and you will become well buff, innit. No, I don't work for Bulk Powders - I pay out of my own pocket. Even for childcare of 35 year olds.
It is getting a bit late, but not too late for a blackbird brood @dunelmSounds like your garden is the set for the bird version of “Into The Storm”. I hope that the cast have not missed out on this years nesting season. I love this painting theme that you are on with. Lovely greens here in this bursting light - I thought at first that it was at the bottom of the sea and the light was from Captain Nemo.
Thanks for the painting compliments @Muddy CyclistWinner for the impressionist art, very effective and a good learning curve by the sound of it.
Hugs for thatch depletion. I'm sure @lindisfel knows better than I but I think Male Wrens play around and have multiple female partners installed in many nests so that maybe why you only see one at a time, he's so busy keeping them all happy.Well that's what my old mum told me, she may have got it wrong.
Don't go too far with weight correction but twixt Mr K and yourself I'm sure that won't happen. I've now tried this for nearly 6 years and my conclusion is LC eating and me are incompatible. Still,many a relationship lasts a lifetime despite that and I never thought I was meant to be a teacher or opening batsman - others disagreed. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. Most here know that perfectly, me? not so much actually not at all Your head is screwed on properly.I had very sadly gained about 6lb over the various lockdowns. All.of it had gone around my waist. So another 2 1/2 lbs to go to get back to my ideal weight. Then I will have a dilemma because any more weight loss and I start looking too slender.
What I am hoping is that the P.E. Diet is mainly targeting hidden fat around and in my organs - which does seem to be happening at the moment. Also, I am hoping that muscle mass will increase with the extra protein - which will hopefully balance out fat loss.
Winner for the impressionist art, very effective and a good learning curve by the sound of it.
Hugs for thatch depletion. I'm sure @lindisfel knows better than I but I think Male Wrens play around and have multiple female partners installed in many nests so that maybe why you only see one at a time, he's so busy keeping them all happy.Well that's what my old mum told me, she may have got it wrong.
I like the Cader Idris painting as it is, but I can understand why you feel you would have liked early morning mist @Muddy CyclistFinished Cader Idris watercolour, I am not happy with the middle ground, I should have made it early morning mist and kept the mountain lighter, will try again in a day or two...
A4 watercolour...
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Started another Spring Light Beech Tree painting. Will finish Wednesday.
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Now off to see both Grandaughters jumping their ponies....
Thanks for the painting compliment @geefullgood evening all
4.6 today
@lindisfel - yup, snow showers here today tooit didn't 'stick' but I'm looking forward to a bit of wamth, at least the wind has dropped to a moderate level although the far side of the firth is full of white caps
We went over to mum's to collect her list ready for tomorrow's weekly trolley dash earlier and the sky was beautiful and light as we drove, clouds blustering along, sun, snow showers in the distance, spectacular
@Krystyna23040 - glad things are progressing well
I put on about 3Kg over this last lockdown too
@dunelm - interesting composition, it works well, really gives a sense of scale
I had a look at some of Fu Baoshi's work and I see why you like it. He has a looser style but a skillful way of emphasising the focus of his paintings.
@gennepher - a fine painting today, lovely texture and glowing colour with subtle variation
Mum usually has a wren in her garden too, it nests inside a gap in the stone wall (almost under the terracotta pot I drew).
@Muddy Cyclist - I like your Cader Idris as it is, it looks as though the sun is just peeping through enough to add a hint of wamth in the middle ground to contrast with the more sombre hills and foregroundI think it would have looked nicely atmospheric with the mist too though
A shapely start to the next painting, I do find the first washes of your paintings interesting.
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The image below is from Layman's talk on protein. Basically he argues that the RDA is a minimum and most adults, especially us "Seniors," need way more due to Sarcopenia. We could go as far as 200 gms protein a day safely. Not sure most of us could a) eat that much and b) afford it. His[/QUOTE
Ah - but do you have shares in Bulk powders.No, I don't work for Bulk Powders - I pay out of my own pocket.
Thank you.I like the Cader Idris painting as it is, but I can understand why you feel you would have liked early morning mist @Muddy Cyclist
I look forward to tomorrow's finished one.
It is really good to know that we could go as far as 200g safely. I agree that not many of us could eat that much.The image below is from Layman's talk on protein. Basically he argues that the RDA is a minimum and most adults, especially us "Seniors," need way more due to Sarcopenia. We could go as far as 200 gms protein a day safely. Not sure most of us could a) eat that much and b) afford it. His idea is to "build" meals around protein and target leucine. 30 gms protein per meal is his starting point. Looking at his image on the left, if he follows his own advice, seems to work better than a few of the experts I've seen who don't look especially trim. The implication is high quality, lean protein. Which is expensive, hence "Seniors" being deficient IMHO.
I love the colours you used and am not surprised that it took you four hours to paint as it is a wonderful painting.Fbg 6.5
Windy, rainy, and stormy all night. But the sky was surprisingly light. It didn't feel like night.
I have to rescue a Eucalyptus tree which broke free from its supports in the night and is danger of being snapped into 2 with this vicious wind. I could see birds (eg blackbird sized) flying to and fro in the night, which seems strange to me. The night is normally devoid of birds.
Also the two blackbirds who were nesting in my clematis, and I assumed had laid eggs, abandoned that nest, and the male and female blackbirds were tearing up the thatch from my thatched swing, and building a nest in the cherry tree in my front garden. Now, that one appears to have been abandoned.
This last week the same pair have been collecting nesting materials and building a nest at the bottom of my garden among the honeysuckle. But it was a very exposed and windy position.
This morning the same female blackbird is frantically collecting MORE nesting materials, and building yet another nest in the crab apple tree. She is ripping the thatch off my thatched swing as though there is no time to lose in this nest building process. The male blackbird in the meantime is rolling his eyes and having a good old morning bath in the disused cat tray which had collected a surfeit of water...until Mrs Blackbird dive bombs him into nest building action...
The only thing I can think of is in the original clematis where Mrs Blackbird built a nest, Jenny Wren built a nest within a metre of her in the same clematis. All seemed well for a few weeks initially. Then. Jenny Wren started making a heck of a racket each time I went in the garden. (I had to use a bird song app to identify the bird, and it said it was the alarm call of a wren) I can vouch it is deafening, because when I walk past Jenny Wren's nest on the way to my garage, my cochlear speech processor on my left ear is within two hand widths of her nest, and the noise Jenny Wren yelled into it was like my brain had blown up...
I can only assume Mrs Blackbird didn't like such horrendously noisy neighbours...and wanted to move house. I fully empathise with Mrs Blackbird...
Where is Jeremy (I cannot call him Jenny Wren) Wren in all this? I only ever see one wren at a time, and Jenny Wren seemed friendly enough earlier in the year and flew near me. But I assume she has babies now...
I'll go and check on how Mrs B is when this rainstorm abates. She is still friendly to me, comes straight up to my feet when I am in the garden, and doesn't regard me as a threat. Her feathers are all spiky with the rain. I don't know how she can fly when she is this waterlogged.
But first I need to do some more googling. It is going to cost me a fortune to replace this thatch on my swing
My digital painting in Procreate this morning. It was meant to be a quickie, but literally 4 hours later, and I was learning a lot of new stuff with it. Can you tell it took 4 hours? Nope, I didn't think you would!
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Thank you for your appreciation.good evening all
4.6 today
@lindisfel - yup, snow showers here today tooit didn't 'stick' but I'm looking forward to a bit of wamth, at least the wind has dropped to a moderate level although the far side of the firth is full of white caps
We went over to mum's to collect her list ready for tomorrow's weekly trolley dash earlier and the sky was beautiful and light as we drove, clouds blustering along, sun, snow showers in the distance, spectacular
@Krystyna23040 - glad things are progressing well
I put on about 3Kg over this last lockdown too
@dunelm - interesting composition, it works well, really gives a sense of scale
I had a look at some of Fu Baoshi's work and I see why you like it. He has a looser style but a skillful way of emphasising the focus of his paintings.
@gennepher - a fine painting today, lovely texture and glowing colour with subtle variation
Mum usually has a wren in her garden too, it nests inside a gap in the stone wall (almost under the terracotta pot I drew).
@Muddy Cyclist - I like your Cader Idris as it is, it looks as though the sun is just peeping through enough to add a hint of wamth in the middle ground to contrast with the more sombre hills and foregroundI think it would have looked nicely atmospheric with the mist too though
A shapely start to the next painting, I do find the first washes of your paintings interesting.
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Thank you very much @Krystyna23040I love the colours you used and am not surprised that it took you four hours to paint as it is a wonderful painting.
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