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After Monet

Poppy Field by Claude Monet is such a lovely fresh painting. Women and children taking a stroll in beautiful fields. Their hats and parasols brightening the scene alongside the dainty…

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After Manet

‘Gypsy with a Cigarette’ by the French painter Edouard Manet is the next Master Copy I’ve attempted (in that cheap and nasty canvas pad I mentioned in the Cezanne post)….

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After Cezanne

An attempt at a famous painting by Paul Cezanne. I bought a cheap book of canvas sheets, the surface is really rough and awful to paint on.  And I finally…

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Pompeii Fresco

I finally made it to the Pompeii exhibition (Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum) at the British Museum. There was so much to see about the daily lives of…

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Jeans

Another old piece I’ve found.  I love the combination of colours here.  But most of all I love the winton canvas paper that Winsor & Newton no longer seem to…

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