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Weave
Read more: WeaveSo, this is an example of what happens when I really doodle. It starts out as a perfect pattern, but then somehow it screws up – in this case literally! I’m not sure whether this image offers a window into the dark recesses of my psyche or whether instead it is merely the result of…
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Bunting
Read more: BuntingThis is a view along Church Street in Hereford, looking towards the cathedral, which is where I spotted this bunting whilst visiting the city in early June. I’m not really sure why the bunting was up – there had been celebrations for the 80th anniversary of VE Day a few weeks earlier, so maybe the…
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Iron Gates
Read more: Iron GatesMy art group made another visit to Ichi-Coo Park today – this time in glorious sunshine! Here is one of the sketches that I made there this afternoon – this one done on the iPad using the “charcoal” drawing tool. I hadn’t realised at the time that I had left the colour set to a…
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Tiles
Read more: TilesI have always been rather taken with these symmetrical patterned tiles. I first became aware of them in Morocco, so initially thought of them as “Moroccan” tiles, but then I saw them in Spain as well, so switched to the adjective “Moorish”. More recently I have seen similar tiles in many other countries bordering the…
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Classical Ambience
Read more: Classical AmbienceI recently attended a lunch at Hylands House near Chelmsford in Essex. Apart from the enjoying the event itself, I was rather curious to see the interior of a house that I first new as a near ruin when I was a child, but which is now returned to something close to what I presume…
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Flowers at Wisley – Again
Read more: Flowers at Wisley – AgainThere really are an awful lot of flowers at Wisley, so I don’t feel too bad about having another go at painting some of them. The Royal Horticultural Society have some stunning formal flowerbeds in their garden at the moment, but just like last time I have chosen to paint some of their “wild” flowers…
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Lily
Read more: LilyI saw this rather handsome plant in a local garden centre whilst looking for something else entirely, so naturally I bought the specimen and it is now trying to survive (and I hope thrive!) in my garden. It is a rather different shape to the lilies that I drew many years ago when I first…
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Galata Tower
Read more: Galata TowerThe Galata Tower in Istanbul is now almost 700 years old. Today it dominates a hillside otherwise covered in a jumble of more modern and more modest buildings, the tower still offering the views it was designed to give over the city and the surrounding crossroads of land and sea routes. In my head (weird…
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Latte
Read more: LatteI often drink my coffees with barely a thought for the barista’s art work on top, but this one caught my eye and was duly immortalised in a photo before I took my first sip. Having become entangled in the creation of a couple of pictures that have become way too complicated and detailed, I…
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Gull Escort
Read more: Gull EscortOur boat trip on the Bosphorus was escorted by a number of gulls, most of whom flew for ages within a few metres of the boat. Of course, gulls being gulls, this wasn’t exactly an altruistic gesture in their part – several of the passengers on our boat kept throwing pieces of bread to the…
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Wooded Path
Read more: Wooded PathSome places seem to me quite special, magical even, and this is one of them. This path leads up to Reigate Hill, and I sometimes follow it when I walk up that hill from my house. I don’t always take this path however, partly so as not to lose the sense of wonder that this…
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Mayflower
Read more: MayflowerMore properly known as hawthorn, but if you use the proper name it is just that bit more difficult to remember exactly when this plant flowers! This picture was intended to look rather like one of those very arty photos where the object in the foreground is in sharp focus and the background is just…
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