tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28201476336360917612024-03-13T00:33:50.649-07:00Artworks by Paul Coventry-BrownRealist Oil PaintingsPaul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-76548318001487558662016-04-05T11:13:00.001-07:002016-04-05T11:13:21.933-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, here we go again thanks to some nice comments ... more paintings from that last few years with a few details much larger than life size ... all oil on panel (these were 12 x 7 inches).</span><br />
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<br />Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-17446803559177505662016-04-04T09:44:00.000-07:002016-04-04T09:44:01.488-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally managed to get access to my own blog after all these years after all the changes with Google!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'll just post some recent paintings to get started again (I must admit that I use Facebook every day now and am not sure if I will continue the blog - depending on the amount of feedback).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK! The last one for now - 9 x 12 inches, oil on MDF panel.</span></div>
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This is a continuation of the Peeled Orange theme (posted in June)
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The paint is by Winsor & Newton and<span class="text_exposed_show">
I'm happy to say that they have bought this one and that I will be the
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P.S. this is a very grainy/fuzzy photo but I just couldn't get a better shot and Photoshop didn't help either.</div>
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Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-31008213355801278242013-10-06T01:23:00.002-07:002013-10-06T01:23:30.668-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12 x 9 inches, oil on MDF panel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just loved the light coming through the leaves and the shadow on the pear, I really enjoyed painting this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Well, it's been a while folks.</span></div>
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I found it very hard to get back to painting after my father passing
away in July and I even had to abandon five paintings in the last three months
that I just couldn't finish as they were beyond salvage (I even started
one of them again and had to trash that too!!), such a waste of weeks of
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It was as though I'd forgotten how to paint, like some kind of mental block that I couldn't shake off.</div>
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I'm hoping that I'm back on track again now but time will tell ........</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 12 x 9 inches oil on hardboard</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Approx. 3 times life size detail</span></div>
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12 x 9 inches, oil on linen panel<br />
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...and another!!!!!<br />
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<br />Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-84448405973028591212013-03-09T02:37:00.001-08:002013-03-12T02:33:29.587-07:00Cutting Edge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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actually). With my dad being in hospital 5 times and then ill at home
most of the rest of the time it's been tough trying to focus on my
painting and I got into a bit of an inspirational block.</span><br /><span class="userContent"> S<span class="text_exposed_show">o,
please forgive that some of the following posts are variations on some
older themes as I was also trying out some new linen panels and wanted to get stuck in right away. The panels are
great by the way.</span></span><br /><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> I am going to try and post some close up details later on as
some people have referred to me as a photo realist painter but I just
consider myself a realist. I hope the details will show that I don't try and
paint every pore on a lemon, for example.<br /><br /><br />Thanks for being patient with this erratic poster :-)</span></span></span><br />
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it's been a long time since I posted. I did have some commissions that I
haven't posted because they are similar to others that I have posted
before (lemons are still very popular ;-).</span></div>
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for a long time so I thought I'd share how I went about it with this
little study (I did the grisaille in acrylic). I can't really say if it
improved my work flow but it did help to get the form blocked in a lot
quicker (I'm a slow worker so it was never going to really speed me up,
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have been included on this Facebook page with some very illustrious
company so please 'like' the page if you visit it (scroll down to see my
peeled tangerine): <a href="http://www.facebook.com/WorldClassPainters">http://www.facebook.com/WorldClassPainters</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hope I can get the new stuff to you ASAP .... please don't give up on me, I know I'm hopeless at this ;-)</span></div>
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Following on with the 'trompe' theme, I thought I'd get some of the best silver out ...<br />
I gave the panel four coats of acrylic gesso (lightly sanded between each layer) and a final coat of egg emulsion (1:1 egg yolk and water). </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I may give the lemons a rest for a while.</span> It may bring on a case of cold turkey but I'll try and resist ;-)</div>
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A few words about mediums: I hold my hands up to being a medium freak! I want to try every medium out there that I can get my hands on (some I can't get hold of because of shipping restrictions on flammable objects from the USA).</div>
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I have read every treatise on mediums that I can find and I do not seem to be alone in this (even Salvador Dali said he would give his left arm for the secret to Vermeer's medium). So you are not alone ........ yes, I mean you ;-)</div>
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I started, as a novice, with simple linseed oil but it dried too slow for me so I was recommended Winsor & Newton's Liquin Original which I have used for the bulk of my paintings. It usually dries over night (faster if the weather is warm) except for ivory black, titanium white and the cadmium yellows. The earth colours dry fastest. It's a good all round medium but I found it a bit too 'greasy' for wet in wet painting so I went on the hunt for the perfect all round medium (yes, it's a holy grail kind of thing and about as likely to be solved).</div>
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The next step was a mixture of stand oil and pure gum turpentine (1:1) and this was great for wet in wet and glazing but took too long to dry (I like to get painting the next day). So I started adding cobalt driers (a few drops with a pipette to each days medium) and that dried overnight. Unfortunately this makes the medium darker (you don't notice it when you mix it with the paint) and it also highly toxic and I am a terror for biting the ends of my brushes!!!!! </div>
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Then I read about the 'magical' Maroger medium which was formulated by Jacques Maroger who was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris. He reckoned that this was one of the 'lost' mediums used by the old masters (but there seem to be hundreds of variations of resins, oils, emulsions, etc. that the old masters used).</div>
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This, again, is highly toxic as it uses lead oxide as part of the base and making it yourself involves 'cooking' the ingredients (a recipe for disaster for someone like myself), so I decided to buy a ready made brand which I managed to get from the US at enormous cost (it's very expensive).</div>
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I couldn't wait to get my hands on it expecting wonderous results but was greatly disappointed when I found it not much better than Liquin (maybe it was the brand but at $45 for a 5oz tube - before post - I was expecting more). </div>
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Did I say 'a few words ...' way back there? I hope you're sitting comfortably!</div>
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I have tried walnut oil/Venetian turpentine/gum turpentine mixes (I even 'washed' and sun treated my walnut oil until it was a lot lighter than linseed oil), if it was good enough for DaVinci .......</div>
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This was a nice mix but slow drying (apparently walnut doesn't yellow as much as linseed) and sometime I had problems with 'beading' when glazing over areas that were heavy on white in the mix. It was also a little too shiny and enamel like after a few glazes. </div>
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<a href="http://www.jamescgroves.com/mediums.htm" target="_blank">James C. Groves</a> makes some excellent traditional resin mediums/varnish that I liked and M.Graham's Walnut Alkyd Medium was also good but didn't dry fast enough for me.</div>
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At the moment I am using Gamblin's Galkyd Lite (tried their Galkyd and Neo Megilp but this is the one I prefer of the three). This painting was done with the Galky Lite.</div>
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.... now where was I? .... ah, yes - painting surfaces .......<br />
Right, off we go again: I tried Winsor & Newton oil priming on hardboard but it was very thick. ent on quite patchy and needed a lot of sanding to level it out and it still wasn't that great to paint on. At least the acrylic dries faster so I am back to that.<br />
I give the hardboard one coat of acrylic size and four coats of gesso (sanded between each coat with 500 gauge paper) and a final coat of Liquin tinted with burnt umber or an opaque warm grey.<br />
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I think I'll prattle on about mediums in the next post (maybe tomorrow) as I have tried so many of them (almost an addict to buying any one I can get my hands on).<br />
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This tangerine is following on in the 'trompe' series. Unfortunately the photo looks rather flat but in real life the peel does appear to be coming out of the surface (yet another compromise .... photographs ;-).<br />
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... to be continuedPaul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-15357260283613877122012-07-15T07:30:00.000-07:002012-07-22T09:33:38.366-07:00Lemons Trompe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Following on from my last post, I have continued the theme of 'trompe l'oeil' (fool the eye) and will have two more to post over the next few days.</div>
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They do take longer than the usual paintings because of the effect I am trying to achieve of making them look as though they are coming out of the surface. </div>
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I have gone back to using Liquin Original as my medium after some scary mishaps with experiments with traditional and modern varnish mediums. Last month I had to sand down (!) and wash two paintings with turps (very scary) to strip off the varnish. Luckily, all turned out well with only minor retouching ..... phew!!!!!</div>
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A lot of painting is a compromise for me:</div>
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I never seem to find the 'just right' surface to paint on, medium to paint with or brushes with the right feel. I keep experimenting but I usually have to settle on something I am not 100% happy with.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Surfaces .... I have tried cotton, linen, ready gessoed panels of different kinds of board (oil primed and acrylic primed) and self primed hardboard (oil and acrylic). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Firstly, I have always found acrylic gesso too absorbent and the surface doesn't become optimal for me until after at least four coats of underpainting when it becomes mostly non-absorbent and the colours don't 'sink in' (when the oil is absorbed from the new paint by the layer below leaving the new colours dull and chalky the next day - this is easily solved by 'oiling out'* though). Oiling out involves brushing (or in my case, using fingers) to put a very, very thin coat of medium over the dull areas. This is also great to paint into and helps with blending into the layer below. It is also sometimes referred to as a couche/couch (which means 'a coat/layer' in French: sous couche=under coat).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">......to be continued</span>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-18604435224508738952012-05-29T02:43:00.002-07:002012-08-02T23:59:23.882-07:00New paintings for sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I thought that instead of posting these one at a time that I would just go the whole hog ;-)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I have decided to sell all my paintings framed from now on because I always worried about them being damaged in transit abroad and I know that the postal services don't particularly care about the 'fragile' stickers I place on the boxes! The frames should help protect the panels and the painted surface.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I think this moulding works well with the paintings so this is the frame I went with (made for me by my artist/teacher friend <a href="http://rayshuell.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ray</a>).</span></div>
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I'm sure these pears have a name but I can't for the life of me remember what it is (it was there on the sign when I bought them but in my dotage it has totally slipped my mind).</div>
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It made a nice change to paint something red but always a new challenge when painting something totally new to you.</div>
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The pear on the right was painted in a very high key at first and then glazed many times to get it to recede into the background (the old master influence creeping in there).</div>
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More paintings to follow ..... I didn't post any new work recently because I just wasn't happy with a lot of the work I was doing but I am hoping that the new paintings I am doing will set me in the right direction again (to be posted in the following weeks ... hopefully).<br />
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</div>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-54149257398285113032012-04-02T01:25:00.001-07:002012-04-27T00:17:36.062-07:00Sweet tooth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> 12 x 9 inches, oil on Belgian lead primed linen panel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problem is I usually go through half a pack in one sitting as I can't stop ..... 'just one more' never seems to work ;-) </span></span></span></div>
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I can't believe it's been so long since my last post! </div>
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For various reasons I haven't got a lot done in the last three months and some of the work I did I was so unhappy with I either painted over them or banned them to the dark recesses of the cupboard. It became that I couldn't finish a painting: they just dragged on and on and then I gave up on them.</div>
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I'm sure this happens to all artists at some point and we have to try and battle on but giving up is not an option.</div>
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I also couldn't think of any new ideas; it was quite a dark time ...... but I am fighting through it and am working on a few new ones that I hope will put me back on track (to be posted sooner rather than later ... I hope!).</div>
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This was a re-visit of a few of my favourite props and, unusually for me, cropped into the bargain.</div>
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I have been using <a href="http://www.michaelharding.co.uk/index.php" target="_blank">Michael Harding</a> Titanium White 2 recently and love it. It is made with linseed oil and dries faster than the Winsor and Newton I normally use which used to hold back any glazing I had to do over it. It also seems to avoid 'beading' when glazing over it which was another problem I had before.</div>
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I also use their Dammar Glaze Medium in preference to W&N Liquin now, it dries over night and has a nice tack for painting wet in wet where the Liquin feels more greasy and colours don't sit on top of each other so well.</div>
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I have also been using Artfix L84C oil primed linen and highly recommend it. I has a wonderful surface to paint on and smooth enough for fine detail too. It just feels so good! BUT ........ it is very expensive!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">16 x 12 inches oil on Gatorfoam panel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OK! Last one for today. This was a commission for the owner of the Martin Committee trumpet shown in the painting</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> (as played by the greats)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. I was asked to do this by his parents as a birthday gift and they suggested adding the hat and suitcase because they had really liked the ones I had done previously).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My first trumpet painting and probably my last (way too much fiddly work ;-) but I did enjoy it.</span></div>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-18100051117340980152011-12-07T06:15:00.001-08:002011-12-13T01:54:24.427-08:00Three Grannies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Granny Smiths, my favourite apple (and Neil Hollingsworths too I believe), always good to paint and they don't take as long as lemons, so another plus in their favour ;-)</span></div>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-1766648927705094792011-12-07T06:11:00.001-08:002011-12-13T01:56:06.721-08:00Lemon in the Balance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another trompe lemon. These are heaven and hell to paint and every time I ask myself why I do it!!! It can be difficult to make these work but I guess you will be the judge if it does ;-)</span></div>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-80589200764045311492011-12-07T06:01:00.001-08:002011-12-13T01:57:42.165-08:00Lemon and Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wow! I didn't realise how long it's been since the last post so I'll post a few today. I have been busy doing a few commissions but I didn't post them because they were similar to others I have done (as requested by the clients) so I didn't want to send everyone to sleep ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have been making my own panels with Artfix L84C quadruple primed linen (expensive!!) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and Ampersand hardboard. The linen is amazing to paint on, very smooth and the paint goes on wonderfully for each layer (way better than acrylic primer), I would really recommend it.</span></div>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-84334523042048916412011-08-30T01:32:00.000-07:002011-12-13T01:59:48.036-08:00And now for something completely different ....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is another 'trompe l'oeil' (fool the eye) done on a 8 x 8 inch three quarter inch thick <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-studio-artists-boards/">'Blick Studio' panel</a> (these panels have a textured surface but I sanded it smooth). Yes, it is just a flat surface ;-)
<br />It works a lot better in real life as I just can't get the photo to convey the real impression of depth.</span></span> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Does anyone have a really expensive Nikon digital SLR they don't need anymore? ;-) </span>Paul Coventry-Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17345559572105238827noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2820147633636091761.post-12747417609614784972011-08-13T22:27:00.000-07:002011-12-13T01:57:12.875-08:00New Stuff ...<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zELHYXc704U/Tkduws_Wu6I/AAAAAAAAASc/3I0oADV58zE/s1600/ebay-2011.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640598841294502818" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zELHYXc704U/Tkduws_Wu6I/AAAAAAAAASc/3I0oADV58zE/s320/ebay-2011.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 127px;" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 100%;">Yes, a long time between postings but you get three for the price of one this time - and only two of them are lemons :-)
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<br />I have had some commissions recently that I've been working on so I have been keeping busy but I have been rather neglectful of the blog. I also feel that there have been too many lemons posted so I haven't posted all of them, but they have proved so popular and everyone keeps asking me for them so I can't get away from them - anyway, I like painting them so much ;-)
<br />I have some new non-lemon related themes on the go at the moment so if all goes well this may be a lemon free zone for a while :-)
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