Can you date any of these Thanet postcards? I've given them numbers where there's been anything useful on the back, I've given the back of the card the same number.
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The pictures should expand to really quite a large size and that should help with the dating too.
I'm painting a watercolor sketch mouse mornings before I get up, here are the last two.
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| After Balthus and Tenniel watercolour |
After lady Godiva painted by John collier in 1898.
Coventry the destruction of the cathedral, the aftermath of the second world war amongst the adults surrounding me, being sent to Coventry, lady Godiva, the newly constructed M1 motorway, going to Coventry to see the new cathedral. This is all tangled in my childhood memories with the painting that I have based today's watercolour on. Comments critical aesthetic and technical are welcome, so what do you think? If you can see the gold in the photos, it's gold watercolour, I think it must have particles of some sort of metal in it probably Ronnie Barker's gold. Perhaps i should call it Don't Stop Me Now.
Faber Castell polychromos colouring pencils are about £2 each and I wound up buying 10 not many pencils for £20. I also tried out permanent rose watercolor it was a bit too strong for me and I got a bit red.
Anyway I managed to match some of the colours that I have in watercolour in ordinary colouring pencils which is very useful for making visual notes and my sketchbook when I haven't got time too open up my watercolour palette
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