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Sunday 10 July 2016
Gunboats and dispatch riders at Ramsgate Harbour, a bit more watercolour sketching in The Belgian Café.
First the gunboat pictures last night and this morning.
Then the dispatch rider and 1940s B.S.A. M20, a couple of lovely looking ladies.
Then it was on to The Belgian Cafe for breakfast and a bit more work on my watercolour sketch.
Bit of rubbing out with sponge here as the lady in question only had the very top of her head painted and today had put her hair up.
Tricky business painting people from life, for one thing, unlike buildings the move about. This is not like painting the girl in A Bar at the Folies-Bergère where I assume she posed over the champagne and oranges for ages, so a likeness if I'm lucky.
Finally this rather strange picture, as I had to take my daughters shopping in Canterbury this afternoon, I have an allergy to shopping so painted a picture and ate cake.
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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.