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photo Ash Trees – my favourite wood for the fire and for making handles for tools.

In the breeze after weeks of rain … so very lush.

If any variety of native British tree particularly appeals, post a comment and I’ll try to find them

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paintings posts

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part 1 – the spring

Nearby is Rocky Valley, a fine rugged, picturesque walk. Photos and videos (follow the link).

Three Sisters – Painting

I hope this 2nd attempt is a bit better! Thanks Chris for the lighting advice. follow the link for strange light in winter photographs).

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Favourite photos and paintings

Puberty Nick – the grandson of Old Nick.

From the short story of the same name Puberty Nick

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A painting (or photo!) of his grand-dad would be welcome …

More Paintings with funny/ stroppy teens

Gasbladder, the stroppy teen and Lucy:

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Well I think it’s pretty …

Little did I know what a load of abuse of the ‘Flute Polisher’ variety would follow. It’s as well I didn’t publish a photo of pheasant plucking …

It might prove useful for the song Mellow sort of dream. then again …

A quote from the BBC guide

Sometimes the flute is made of real silver, sometimes of solid gold!

To play, the musician holds the long tube of the flute in both hands and blows across a small hole at one end. The holes can be opened and closed by pressing down different metal keys. The flute can make a shrill, piercing noise as well as being able to sing like a bird.

A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across a hole in the instrument creates a vibration of air at the hole.

The air stream across this hole creates a Bernoulli, or siphon, effect leading to a von Karman vortex street. This excites the air contained in the usually cylindrical resonant cavity within the flute. The player changes the pitch of the sound produced by opening and closing holes in the body of the instrument, thus changing the effective length of the resonator and its corresponding resonant frequency. By varying the air pressure, a flute player can also change the pitch of a note by causing the air in the flute to resonate at a harmonic other than the fundamental frequency without opening or closing any holes.

To be louder, a flute must use a larger resonator, a larger air stream, or increased air stream velocity. A flute’s volume can generally be increased by making its resonator and tone holes larger. This is why a police whistle, a form of flute, is very wide for its pitch, and why a pipe organ can be far louder than a concert flute: a large organ pipe can contain several cubic feet of air, and its tone hole may be several inches wide, while a concert flute’s air stream measures a fraction of an inch across.

horse-drawn caravan overlooking the sea
It’s almost a watercolour

Typically, the first picture I’ve uploaded isn’t strictly a watercolour, but ‘patience’ seemed such a good idea when starting a new paintings blog …

Don’t you just love colour?

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Watercolour Painting – Saturn, Serpent & Sun

Skye’s dream, from her short story ‘Skyelights’. What does it mean? It depends who dreams it, i guess. Saturn is obsessive, but also has a positive side in determination, the serpent sounds a bit garden of Eden, and the sun has to be consciousness or daylight. Feel free to argue

Experimental Paintings

Experimental Paintings

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Poddle the boat builder – resident of Smogdale, Upnorth, UK.

He’s experienced life’s up and downs, and now considers himself wiser than most. The AloeVeras call such animals HairyMammals, in contrast to their semi-conducting selves.

In other words, he’s a miserable sod …

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More Paintings illustrating poems, songs and stories

Paintings illustrating poems, songs and stories

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featuring Honda Prelude. I hope to paint more characters from my stories, but it takes time …

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A watercolour of 3 sisters, from the story ‘The House of Stone’. (Link above)

‘Picture a small stone cottage with half the thatch missing, heat haze and dragonflies over the weed-filled, stagnant pond, in the undulating, slate- and granite-strewn hills of north-west England,’ says the story.

Maybe I’ll try that next …

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P.S. This was too large a painting to fit in the scanner, and my attempt to photograph it leaves much to be desired; the image has come out much darker than the painting. Photographic advice welcome – thanks.