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- 04 Mar 2024, 11:04
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Getting back to painting & drawing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1351
Re: Getting back to painting & drawing
... when I was "painting" the yellow and blue in the photos, I did consider green
- 04 Mar 2024, 11:01
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: Trev62-An intermittent gardening blog!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2058
Re: Trev62-An intermittent gardening blog!
you have been busy - sounds like you'll have a lovely fruit harvest this year
- 03 Mar 2024, 10:33
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Getting back to painting & drawing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1351
Re: Getting back to painting & drawing
A friend of mine suggested opening the photo I'd taken with Paint on the computer and digitally add colour so that I can decide BEFORE colouring in the original artwork. She also suggested blue eyes but I think the yellow eyes look better: https://i.ibb.co/BjP3gFz/wolf-eyes-yellow.jpg https://i.ibb....
- 01 Mar 2024, 17:27
- Forum: Environmental, Green & Ethical Issues
- Topic: ... and so it begins
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10500
Re: ... and so it begins
Two years since it was first reported, seems the company making wood pellets from protected trees in Canada to use in UK power stations as the "green" alternate to fossil fuel is still going on. They were only supposed to use diseased wood or from planted trees. Worth reading the BBC report as it sh...
- 01 Mar 2024, 17:13
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Getting back to painting & drawing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1351
Re: Getting back to painting & drawing
My latest is what I would have called a pen & ink drawing (when you would dip the pen nib into ink to draw) but using Fineliner pens are so much better (no more accidental blobs to disguise!) It feels like I'm cheating but the time taken to do what I thought was a small piece still took a lot longer...
- 27 Feb 2024, 18:40
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Genealogy (UK)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7951
Re: Genealogy (UK)
The stories on my mother's side of the family were the more interesting - a Scottish ancestor "of royal descent" With reference to those stories I heard when I was a child - well, I haven't found that Scottish royal connection (yet) Well, some exciting news. It seems my mother wasn't the only one w...
- 19 Feb 2024, 10:49
- Forum: Frugality and Self-Reliance
- Topic: Goats
- Replies: 35
- Views: 26811
Re: Goats
you must be excited
- 18 Feb 2024, 10:42
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Getting back to painting & drawing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1351
Re: Getting back to painting & drawing
One of the ideas I have for a painting is to have a bit of a cracked glazed ceramic appearance and I had been googling for images to work on. During the search I came across products that actually have the same effect called crackle media (in the 1990s there was a craze for creating "distressed" fur...
- 14 Feb 2024, 10:06
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Getting back to painting & drawing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1351
Re: Getting back to painting & drawing
On Friday I purchased some more acrylic paint (2 sets of metallic (gold and bronze shades) in 5ml pots, 4 different "pearl" colour shades in 60ml pots and a set of 5 fineliner pens of different sizes, plus a much needed board to mount sheet paper for painting and drawing. They all arrived late on Mo...
- 14 Feb 2024, 08:45
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Learning Guitar
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8995
- 12 Feb 2024, 17:50
- Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
- Topic: Getting back to painting & drawing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1351
Re: Getting back to painting & drawing
The painting and drawing are really good, LL. I did O Level Art at school, but although I passed, it was nothing like the standard you have achieved. I love the tiger. aw, thank you Spreckly )t' I've done a couple more sketches since my last post. I thought a dried rye seed head would be easy but i...
- 09 Feb 2024, 14:41
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: Trev62-An intermittent gardening blog!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2058
Re: Trev62-An intermittent gardening blog!
We have (so far) planted a lot of the cut raspberry canes to infill part of the perimeter fence. It is no loss if they do not take being all free did you plant the canes or did you split the roots and plant those? I'll be surprised if the canes will take root (though like you say, no great loss if ...
- 07 Feb 2024, 12:50
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Black pudding in recipes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 305
Re: Black pudding in recipes
I get the impression that it goes well with mashed potato, mustard, apple, cabbage, in various sausage rolls or with pork, meatballs and eggs (poached or fried, or Scotch eggs), with porridge oats, lentils, warm salad and so on. A bit more versatile than expected. I'm still looking for simple - may...
- 06 Feb 2024, 12:04
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Black pudding in recipes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 305
Black pudding in recipes
I bought a black pudding over the Christmas period on a whim (one of those - oooh, long time since I had that) - thank goodness it has a long shelf life but that expiry date is fast approaching and it is still sitting in the fridge ... My only experience of black pudding is a cooked breakfast (bacon...
- 06 Feb 2024, 11:09
- Forum: Grow your Own Diaries
- Topic: LL's Gardening Diary
- Replies: 932
- Views: 505820
Re: LL's Gardening Diary
It must be a winter thing where I get itchy fingers and want to start sowing stuff even though I am not in a position to take on a gardening project! The seeds I bought a couple of years ago before I took ill are still viable (ornamental grasses and wildflowers) and some are best sown in autumn or l...