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Theatre Craft
During the recent hot weather we took our grandchildren to a craft activity at our local library. Partly this was for the distraction of the activity itself, but also I must admit partly because the library is air-conditioned! The craft consisted of colouring in, then cutting out, a toy theatre and some characters, which were…
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An Audience
As I spend more time wrestling with my watercolour paints, I have realised that as well as applying ever more colour to the paper it is also possible to remove paint from the surface to lighten an area. This scene was created to experiment with ways of removing paint from certain places to create the…
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Spotlight
This is my first attempt to draw on black paper. I used a white pen, so one might imagine that the approach is basically the reverse of the more normal black-pen-on-white-paper drawing skills that I have been honing. So for example, the pen has to mark highlights rather than shadows. It turns out that things…


