Category: Time
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Nefertiti’s Table
For today’s painting, I travelled all the way back to 1355BC and managed to paint this quick watercolour of a mid-afternoon snack before Queen Neferneferuaten Nefertiti (I was in luck as she’d just popped to the shops with her consort Pharaoh Akhenaten) returned to eat it. It was warm in that Ancient Egyptian Sun, I…
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Farewell, Facebook; Tara, Twitter!
What seems like absolute eons ago now, I deactivated my Facebook account, in case I ever wanted to return but with the intention of never returning to the …erm, be nice. That was back in 2011, and I wrote about it here. I’ve never looked back. Never missed it, and never gave it a thought…
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The Good Old Days
These Wednesday posts remind me of how it was when I first started blogging, back in the hazy sepia days of 2010. What should I write about today? was always the first question on my mind. Swiftly followed by numerous rewrites of a post that I hoped someone – anyone – just one – would…
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Olde Worlde Street Scene
I gave myself forty-five minutes to try and recreate an old fashioned photo, just using ink. No pencil sketching beforehand; just a case of start and then continue until the time is up. I ran out of time, needless to say, but I managed to get one side of the street in (although the rooftop…
The Mansionic Perspective 