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  2008

  Dec 23
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  Uncle Bob

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  A 5 minute drawing to describe two thousand years. Watercolour on a watercolour Moleskine
   

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  Joseph R Tomlinson 1:05 pm on December 23, 2008 | #

  Merry Christmas, Bob.

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  trebor61 1:38 pm on December 23, 2008 | #

  And to you my friend

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  Rudat 3:58 pm on December 23, 2008 | #

  Beautiful. I like your description also. Did you use frisket for the star and the rays? It looks great.

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  trebor61 4:19 pm on December 23, 2008 | #

  Hi Susan. Yes I used frisket (I believe this is the same as masking fluid) but the rays were drawn with white ink. I don’t know if you saw my comment on one of Rob Carey’s posts (Dec 4th). I gave him a flickr photo which show the star I used as a reference (this was taken last year in my house)http://www.flickr.com/photos/28475994@N00/3083243664/
  and I added details of a website to download templates for making the stars
  http://www.korthalsaltes.com/ninth_stellation_of_the_icosahedron.htm
  You should try your own. All you need is strong/quick setting glue and lots of patience.
  A happy Christmas to you and yours, Susan. Thank you for sharing many drawings and for commenting on many of my posts this year.

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  Sophie Brown 6:09 pm on December 23, 2008 | #

  I’ve never even heard of white ink but it looks great. It’s nice that you have this sort of lonely house and so the star kind of jumps out at you.

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  trebor61 3:02 am on December 24, 2008 | #

  Thanks Sophie. Winsor & Newton do a range of drawing inks including white. Have a Happy Christmas

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  Rob Carey 3:36 am on December 24, 2008 | #

  Very nice, Bob- a great little piece.

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  renefijten 12:41 pm on December 24, 2008 | #

  Beautiful tones, lively composition. I’ll have to get me the white ink.

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  Linda Bachrach 2:30 pm on December 24, 2008 | #

  Well I think this describes 2000 years very well!
  Fast and simple drawings have such an attractive quality about them.

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  trebor61 4:27 pm on December 24, 2008 | #

  Thanks everyone. May you all have an enjoyable and peacful Christmas

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  Margie 11:15 am on December 25, 2008 | #

  This is so peaceful! Thank you and Merry Christmas, Bob! Thank you for all the comments you post to everyone, including me, on this site.

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