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There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
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- England
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- london
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- Graphite, Pastels
- How long have you been drawing or painting?
- More than 3 years
- Tell us a bit about yourself:
- 75 year old Londoner
Self taught I began adding oil colour to my drawings in my late twenties. After some 43 years of the oil medium I switched to acrylic in 2008, mainly because they allowed me to satisfy my impatience to finish a work in one sitting. My finished oil paintings were very sporadic, my unfinished “put aside for later” paintings, many.
2009 saw me try out various mediums, graphite, watercolour pencils and then, finally, in February, I discovered soft pastels and I suddenly became very prolific and, more importantly, happier with my art.
I realised, many years ago, that I would never be good enough to earn a living from art. If I wasn’t pleased with the results of my work why should others be? I had very few paintings that I could look back upon with any pride. I have moved on to graphite and am learning through practice,practice, practice.
Ed79's Blog
equine eye-quick and easy
I was asked if I could re-publish a blog for a horse's eye that I did on ID&P a couple of years ago. So, if you have seen it before, I apologise.
This is just a simple, basic model for you to add your own refinements. Like eyelashes, for example!!
Figure 1
 Basic…
ContinuePosted on April 11, 2012 at 5:39pm — 3 Comments
Indenting
INDENTING
For those who asked about this technique
The tools :- 
Figure 1
As can be seen by the photo there are various implements that can be used for the technique. Note, make doubly, doubly, sure that your ball pen is absolutely free of any ink residue before you use it. They have a nasty habit of…
ContinuePosted on November 10, 2011 at 5:52pm — 5 Comments
cats eyes
CATS EYES
A very popular saying among those of us who paint portraits and animal pictures is “The eyes have it”
Successful pictures always find life through the eye, if that is right then the picture has a chance, if the eye is not correct and alive then neither is the painting.
I have no trouble at all with eyes,…
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 12:07pm — 12 Comments
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Thanks Ed, much appreciated mate. Ron.
Thanks Ed, yes I did use it as an avatar for a while, Steve.
Thanks for the great comments about my owls, Ed!! But please don't report me to the poetry police!!! Anne-Marie x
Hi Ed, You are correct my Dad did fish the river Lea, I'm just pleased he didn't name me after the river Ouse or Piddle!! Lea x
Thanks again Ed. This photo is in a Book written by David Rohl the archaeologist and what a stunning photo it is. It was just screaming out at me to draw it. I used a lot of powdered graphite for the shading or it would have taken me a lot longer than 3 1/2 hours to do.
Thanks Ed - on the actual photo of Nefertiti there is only one eye. The other is totally missing, so I drew one in but not quite so boldly to make the drawing more balanced.
Thanks a lot Ed, I'm slowly learning, mainly from studying your drawings Pal.
Thanks Ed!, very much appreciated, I hope you do, Steve.
ED,THANK YOU VERY MUCH, THE WATER IS NOT BAD IF YOU GO IN WITH A DRY DIVE SUIT LOL JOE G
Thank's Ed. I wish my own reflection was as good as that!!!
Cheer's pal,
Terry.
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