Another large Ramsgate
development this time it’s OL/TH/15/1303 | Outline application
for the erection of 157 dwellings with associated open space and parking
provision, with consideration of access and scale | St
Lawrence College College Road RAMSGATE Kent CT11 7AF.
You can of course go and do battle with the
council’s planning website, documents there seem to open sometimes and not
others, or you can click on the main ones below so they expand, if you click on
the expanded image they will probably expand again so you can read the text on
them.
Here it today's watercolour painting of painting of Chocolate Café in Canterbury from La Trappiste,
this isn’t intended to turn into a finished painting
like say this one also painted
from La Trappiste in Canterbury
the idea here is to get the
feel of the view so that I have some idea of how to paint it.
The view looks like this to a camera, but different to the eye - perhaps?
a lot of cogitating over my ham
sarni
while children and fingers came and went,
one of the issues that needs
working out is where to start – probably the first floor window – what do you
think?
Another is dealing with the bit
that sticks out under the roof, the eaves, and how to size the people.
Books for my bookshop, yes
inbetween painting I bought a lot of books, I won’t bother with a photo as they
will appear on the bookshop blog on the day they go out for sale in my
bookshop, here is a link to yesterday’s post
http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/situation-normal-all-fouled-up.html
anyone know what SNAFU means?
The internet seems to know the meaning, with or without obscenity, but not the poem, well I suppose that's SNAFU for you.
And finally an art tip.
The Sakura Koi water brush an initial doodle
I normally paint in watercolours using a Winsor and Newton field paintbox (the one with the little water bottle and pot that fits in your pocket) and reversible brushes, which also fit in your pocket.
Anyway recently I have had a couple of incidents that prevented me from painting what I wanted to paint:- One was in an art gallery, where the gallery attendant said I couldn't have an open pot of liquid in the gallery and with photography forbidden I was basically stuffed in terms of recording the work on display. The other was when the only way I could paint on my pad was standing up, and as I can’t hold pad, brush and paintbox all at the same time I had to give up.
This was several months ago and I squirted the tubes I usually use as my palette into a small paintbox with a clip on the back in the hope I could paint from a wet sponge clipped onto it, with it clipped onto the pad. This didn’t work.
Today I bought the smallest size of Sakura Koi water brush, the paints had dried up rather a lot so I started with some fairly crumbly lumps, but with a mixture of the whole lot, water brush, sponge, small paintbox with clip on the back, sponge and paper clip to clip it to the paintbox, I think I have something that will work up to a point.
The The Sakura Koi water brush proved better than I thought it would, I tried an unknown make of water brush from the local craft shop, which leaked a lot and had bristles that were impossibly stiff.
The doodle, using all the colours and getting the previous colour out of the brush was done entirely using the water in the brush.
A final note on blog posts and comments, while the blog
still remains the quickest and easiest way to publish information with multiple
large images like this post, most of the related comment has moved onto
Facebook.
I do my best to put links to blog posts onto relevant Facebook
groups which is where most of the discussion happens,
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.