My Portfolio

DTCwordfan | 18:10 Fri 18th Feb 2011 | Arts & Literature

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With various discussions around the site, such as with ethandron, a number of you have asked if they could see some of my work.

So here you are - four drawings. For info, I used a Copic 0.25 needle pen (they sent me 8 of them free recently after I had been in contact with their parent Company!). Some of my work goes to prints, postcards, cards etc and I am lucky in having a really good printer who uses a Giclier print - literally "cat's spray" in French.....

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Theatre on Guernsey ............

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Mosaic

You are very talented!

DTCwordfan

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thanks - I enjoy it (bit like fishing in that 3 hours feels like 1!)

society

Wow! You sure have skills and talent. Thanks for sharing.

ethandron

DT, you really are exceptionally good, i particularly like the royal standard.
is it a hobby that happens to pay or do you do it as a job?
if i could be a quarter, an eighth, a millionth as good as you i'd be a very happy person. in all seriousness, the stuff i do it totally amateurish and not worth looking at. main thing is it gives me pleasure to do it, i'm going to be like one of those mad old biddies who eventually covers all the walls in the house with her rather 'naive' paintings.
thank you so much for showing us your work :)

marval

Those are very good, well done

pastafreak

The 2 of the rather Gothic looking chapel are lovely.

pastafreak

ethandron......my mum was a 'mad old biddy'...she took up watercolours in her 70's.......I have a number of them,and they are quite precious to me.

DTCwordfan

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Thanks all - the second one is Mylor Church, the fourth St Allen (nr Truro)

The Royal Standard does nice food and run by a young crew.

It isn't my mian job but it makes more than a hobby, I guess. Pubs, hotels etc are good news as I hold onto the original and sell off the prints etc. I do sell soem originals - usually house commissions. And I have an interesting one coming, a hotel that want me to imagine what their extension will look like, picking up their Georgian building. Architects CADs are too sterile apparently.

ummmm

I can do that...lol

DTCwordfan

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Still would like to see ethandron. It's like cooking (which I enjoy too) and I have had friends who are nervous to cook for me. It isn't about the food, it's about the company (and the wine! (joking).....I wouldn't object to cooking for Raymond Blanc on that basis.

So the same for art - it's not the result, its the pleasure and the fact that you are doing it, ethandron. So don't be shy......indeed you may be surprised the encouragement that you get. Most people won't have a go and I always say that everyone can be taught some techniques to be able to draw something....maybe not a masterpiece but it can be fun. For example, have you been in one of those paint-a-plate places and it can be amazing to see what 'ordinary' folk have produced.

ethandron

i bet they are pasta, there's something very comforting about things like that isn't there? my mum did free-hand embroidery and i have a lovely sampler she did of our family, and two tiny little embroideries she did when she was a teenager which i had re-framed after she died. they turned from small, pretty insignificant little things into two huge beautiful pictures. very personal these things :)

ethandron

you're right DT, i totally agree with you. maybe in a little while i'll feel able to show you some of what i've done, i'm somewhat self-conscious showing anyone at the moment. of course the other problem is i don't know how to do the technical side of putting anything up here.... will have to get my technical advisor to show me.