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Flutterby
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Posted -  09/12/2006  :  10:22
I love painting and am a local amateur painter have got an N.V.Q. Level 4. I sell  locally but not recently. I work as an Art technican,  which involves  allsorts really! I think more should be done in schools as painting is a good way of helping children communicate and deal with stress, adults too !
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Flutterby
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Posted - 10/12/2006 : 23:56
I like painting on silk and have done watercolour mostly ,but enjoy oil pastels ,crayons never done oils- Ive picked a new avataar and cant understand why it hasnt come on/Go to Top of Page
Stanley
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 06:46
I don't have any stress.......  But the best cure for any stress or worry is action, works every time.......


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Flutterby
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690 Posts
Posted - 31/12/2006 : 12:35

Cant agree more! If i worry about things i get stuck into house work. My son has to sort my computer out then l can get some of my paintings on here for your comments . I  hopeto get some photo,s  of fhe area around  Barlick where my  granmothers family owned a farm"Hartleys"I think its called "Greenfield"but not sure?

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Sue
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4201 Posts
Posted - 31/12/2006 : 17:26

I've just taken up watercolour painting this last year. I have never doen it before. At school it was wisely decided that my talnets lay in the Sciences than the Arts, in fact Art and Home Economics and History were dropped for Latin, Physics and Chemistry. All the above'dropped subjects' now take up a considerable amount of my retirement time. I am making up for lost time. I don't think my Art work is yet up to publishing on the site but I am trying ( some may say i am VERY TRYING!!!!!!)

Sue




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Flutterby
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690 Posts
Posted - 31/12/2006 : 17:51
I think it is an enjoyable hobby and do like copying photograph,s everyone one has to make  a start Sue! so just enjoy playing around with things. I bought a n old frame off a n antique market in Dorset and the photo inside it was beautiful! i copie d it and  managed to get a likeness, my sister has it in her hall and everyone admires it . I felt very emotional when painting it as it is of a first world war soldier taken in Hyde Park. He must have been very young as he looks like a girl not a whisker in sight! My son was the same age when i painted it and my Grandmother lost a brother at nineteenin that war. There is a name on the back of the photo, will try and trace it someday to see if he survived!Go to Top of Page
moh
Silver Surfer


6860 Posts
Posted - 01/01/2007 : 11:19
Try www.cwgc.org - if he died it will tell you where he is buried, then you can find the cemetary on www.findagrave.com and see a picture of his grave.


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Flutterby
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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 13:02
Thanks for that Moh, will get around to doing that later!Its only a last name i have to go off , he,s wearing a cap with the cap badge  which looks like Queen Victoria,s Rifles but not sure will have a go!Go to Top of Page
moh
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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 13:17
Just hope it is an un common last name - if it was taken in Hyde Park he is probably a Londoner which may narrow it down


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Steeplejerk


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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 13:58

My first watercolour,be gentle with me!!!!




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Sue
Senior Member


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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 14:51

is this from a photo or 'onsite'. its better than my first attempt. I go to an all day  workshop once every 6-8 weeks. I am geting quite good at sky and old stone cottages

Sue




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Sue
Senior Member


4201 Posts
Posted - 01/01/2007 : 15:03

Very like Lowry Tm. Did you know there is an ART channel on Sky at 4.00pm. It has videos of different skills. I think it is on 3 days aweek but I can't find the leaflet at the moment. Wednesday is one of the days

Sue




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Flutterby
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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 16:36
Tom, i think it is very good for a first! I really like the buidingsand the figures all look to have movement.A  well balanced picture with both colour and shapes!Go to Top of Page
TOM PHILLIPS
Steeplejerk


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Posted - 01/01/2007 : 23:58

Thank you both,it was copied from a photo,the photo is on the site somewhere,I cut alot of the buildings out when i painted it,just to make it a bit easier.




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Another
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Posted - 02/01/2007 : 06:39
Come on Su and Flutters lets see some examples of your work - don't just leave it to the lads.
The art programme Su refers to is on satellite channel 181 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 4.00pm. Its sponsored by the SAA     http://www.saa.co.uk/

Discovery Real Time on channel 250 show some programmes by Charles Evans where he does a couple of paintings on location each episode.  I've seen him demonstrating at Ilkley art show and he's very good. His web site has a lot of demonstations which you can follow quite easily  http://www.charlesevansart.com/

Same channel also show the Joy of Painting series by Bob Ross, a soft spoken American who uses decorators brushes on big canvasses to do a very unique style of landscape painting.  Well worth watching.

I think Tom has inspired me to get the paints out again and have a go. Claim to have been too busy recently but I think I've just been lazy. Nolic



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TOM PHILLIPS
Steeplejerk


4164 Posts
Posted - 02/01/2007 : 11:19

Heres my 2nd attempt,the chimney is totally wrong,but iam very happy with the figure which is Peter Tatham laddering the Ellenroad chimney.




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