I'm quite impressed with myself today

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Painting class was good. I got on a roll and didn't want to stop. Am making bricks. If i am to make them closer to the original photo they need to be lighter overall but ....

The photo is of a very old stone cottage in Derbyshire in Old Glossop. The cottage name is "Old Cross" because it's at the market cross of Old Glossop. The bricks and stone are sooty in some places and bleached in others. There is a big flowering bush in the middle which is the green bit currently. That will change. The left side hasn't been worked on yet and the right side only just begun. I'm quite pleased with the bricks though. It never seems to look as good to me until i see it in a photo !

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I'm kind of looking forward to it myself, now i see the photo of it lol when you see it from 6 inches away all the time, you don't really "see" it. The instructor suggested i frame it with a double mat, white against the photo and the main mat one of the brown or red-brown colours in it.