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My friend and I moved a bumblebee from the middle of the road yesterday.  Beautiful thing was either dying or coming out of hibernation (I think bumblebees hibernate?  Checking that out) and was still cold and groggy.I could watch bumblebees all day. Edit: The new queens from the previous season overwinter then emerge (starting in February, so right month!) to start new colonies each spring.  They’re important pollinators. 
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I would spend all days doing these if I could.Complementary palette (brilliant violet and primary yellow) play.  Emily started doing patterns, and so were others, so I joined in the fun.  Much more interesting than splotchy swatches, if harder to tell you’ve got everything down. 
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Our own composition in the earth palette.Not quite like the sketch, but I’m glad it’s finished! 
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An earth-palette copy of the inestimable John Walsom’s painting Richmond Hill.  So all credit goes to him.  I made a study of it for the first part of our Colour and Composition homework, and chose it because a) his work was in my inspiration files from foundation, and b) because the palette was completely different to the burnt umber, ultramarine, and white I was to use. I think I learned quite a bit from doing it, even though some of my darks didn’t quite match the original tones.  The painterly strokes were fun to try to reproduce in gouache.Clicking will take you through to the original on Walsom’s website.
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Procrastination/displacement activity.  I really should be working on my Colour and Composition brief which should have been done last tuesday for this tuesday.  My personal sketchbook was feeling unloved, however, and so were my watercolours.
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An alternative outcome for Exaggerate.
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