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Thank you very much for your encouraging comments Alexandra and Christy. I am working on portraits of all my family and I have a brand new grandson to do as well. I love doing people I am close to. I plan on doing myself with five of my friends after Rubens but so far I have only stretched the canvas ready. We have very little time in between hospital visits and baby arriving at the other end of Australia in Tasmania. My sons hopefully last operation is on next Monday. One positive though is that my drawing has much improved as I do a lot of sketches at the hospital. Put some of them of his last operation on raw linen canvas with potassium permanganate and stitching, called it "Time Out" and got in as a short listed finalist in a big open competition recently. I was thrilled at the judges comments about my sketches. I just love sketching groups of people from life especially when they are acting normal and don't know I'm drawing them. I'm forced to catch the essence of them in what they are doing and their relationship with each other with as few marks as possible in as short a time as possible as I never know when they will move away. These all tell me a story in my diary which I'd never capture with a camera. One drawing is way better than a hundred photos in my opinion. Anyway I do rave on when I get going so bye for now. Thanks again.
Pam
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