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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
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 Posted - 24/02/2009 : 16:16:18
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This time i see its worked
This is my painting that has at least 100+ hours left work to complete,To reverse the cloud up side down i`ve done both the top and bottom in a grid to help achieve a mirror image,when this is complete, final shading will need to be matched up
Still lots to be done yet.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 16:19:22
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Excellent I do like the abstract panel.also the fishing paintings look great also .
Keep more pics comming when you get time.
Being a dedicated gardener does not give a lot of time for art.
As you would know you cannot just paint a picture because you happen to have 2 hours free.
Mood is everything .
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 16:39:16
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 yours looks finished to me Richard
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 02:36:23
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| You are right Gwen,but also its about room as that last painting is 1.5m wide |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 25/02/2009 : 04:08:45
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Both are excellent 
You have already put a lot of effort into yours Richard, so much detail!
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 25/02/2009 : 06:41:05
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Good on you Richard.. Love the beach scene..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 09:06:04
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Richard when you finish that last one it will be a winner .,even though there's
yet a lot to go, its working so well already.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 17:47:20
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Wow Richard, what a talented family.... you need to keep going and sell them.
Gwen the cave is my favourite too and my latest one finished last year. I am just starting to work with texture, one is a thickener you add to the paint without changing its colour, but the real texture comes from a putty you put on the canvas first and paint over. I am just learning to use opaque versus transparent colours and am experimenting with depth that layers the transparents gives. The cave has a story, we took a youth group through it and I got mildly hypothermic, I wanted out but the student I was with lost a shoe and freaked out, its 300 metres in pitch dark and the water is below 10C snow melt.... I was really quite scared and my mate who is a social worker and I sat down and cried when we got out the other end ok, you have to climb up a steel ladder and belly crawl out at the end, the year before we did it a woman died, just got too cold to pull herself out, her husband helped the kids up the ladder and when he turned to grab her she had gone under and been washed downstream, I like to think some of that is there in the painting.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 17:56:09
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| That's the cave by castle hill isn't Di ??and thats where the water comes out,?? |
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 18:35:47
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Thats the one - the water was  freezing, as far as I am concerned it was  As you can see, went to PB and found the emoticons, some of them are very cool - love this one  You just click on the ones you like and click download to album.....try it out, I didnt wade through all 3000 odd obviously 
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 18:57:45
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that's what I do at work when I'm bored Di, where did you get yours from 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 26/02/2009 : 02:55:35
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| Thanks Di |
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 26/02/2009 : 05:26:09
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Photobucket as I saw one of you guys suggested at some stage, they are great. I wish we had downtime at work sometimes to graze the net but the clinic is superbusy usually. My husband has really only just worked it out, I got hom yesterday at 8pm having started at midday and my husband asked how long we get for a break in that time.... er no break love, me make a coffee and if you are lucky you get to drink it before it goes cold, yesterday I had to heat mine up twice before I got to it... same with food, you just get used to talking, eating and drinking while you work - love it though
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 26/02/2009 : 05:39:09
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wow.
yous guys are amazing.
if it wasn't dark and i wasn't under the influence of jetlag...i'd say something really intelligent right now.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 26/02/2009 : 17:40:53
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After the afternoon/evening I had at work, that was the most intelligent thing I heard in hours Tessa :-)
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My paintings