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• Pat E Posts: 12,316

  November 2021

  Congratulations to your Mum, Songbird. That’s really lovely to hear.

  S. E. NSW

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• Doghouse Riley Posts: 347

  November 2021 edited November 2021

  Pat E said:

  Wow, that’s impressive. DoghouseR. My painting efforts have all been botanical.  

  Thanks for that.

  Here's a still life and another landscape. Both could have been better if I'd taken more care to finish them.

  Like every hobby, you have to be "in the mood" and I've not for painting for a long time.

  
  

  I've too many other hobbies and stuff to do around the house to even find the time.

  Maybe I'll start again if I ever give up golf.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Pat E Posts: 12,316

  November 2021

  Here are a couple of mine.
  
  
  

  
  

  I like what you’ve done.  I haven’t pained for ages. Might have to stir myself again.

  S. E. NSW

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• Doghouse Riley Posts: 347

  November 2021

  Pat E said:

  Here are a couple of mine.
  
  
  

  
  

  I like what you’ve done.  I haven’t pained for ages. Might have to stir myself again.

  
  

  I like those, they are good compostions well executed.

  
  

  
  

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• Pat E Posts: 12,316

  November 2021

  Thanks. 😁

  S. E. NSW

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  November 2021

  Gosh @Pat E  - how beautiful!
  

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• Pat E Posts: 12,316

  November 2021

  Thanks Fire.
  
   It’s a particular style of painting and I loved learning the style. I attended classes at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens several ago. It fitted in with my Horticture qualifications  from several years before that. 😁

  S. E. NSW

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• LG_ Posts: 4,360

  November 2021

  They're beautiful, @Pat E - very accomplished. I've always loved botanical art, and sometimes think I'd like to give it a try but I don't think I have the patience.

  'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'

  - Cicero

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• Pat E Posts: 12,316

  November 2021

  You might be surprised, LG.
   I really loved the challenge.   Mind you, I had to have cataracts removed from both eyes after I’d been doing it for a few years. 😳 

  S. E. NSW

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• Fran IOM Posts: 2,872

  November 2021

  @Fire Do hope this thread has inspired you to concentrate on your talents once again.
  @Doghouse Riley Those paintings are excellent. Maybe you will take it up again when the weather doesn't allow you to play golf. 
  @Songbird How lovely to have your Mum still knitting approaching her 101st birthday. I am sure whatever you knit is appreciated. 
  @Pat E Love your botanical paintings. Watched a programme recently called Nature and Us - A History through Art. I think it was in episode 2 they showed paintings like yours that go back hundreds of years. Don't know if you can get it where you live. 
  @LG Go on have a go!

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