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"The Target" - Elapsed time - Hours:Minutes
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5:40
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5:40
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Only an hour spent painting today, as domestic duties took over. Fine fall weather helped with the outside work. Clearing leaves from eavestroughs, and some raking . . leaves seem to be the main event these days.
No detailed work on the painting, blocking in to cover the white!
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6:40
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6:40
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Ran out of daylight today, due to hour change to Eastern Standard Time. Better get started earlier tomorrow.
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8:55
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8:55
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| Reasonable day of canvas covering, I see about a quarter done. Mind you, this is only roughing in work, looking forward to getting down to a cellular level . . <grin>. |
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11:20
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11:20
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Today I treated myself to a few new brushes, older ones were loosing hairs! Two Filberts were selected to make my work more pleasant, a No:2 and a No:8. Both coming from the Princetown stable.
Did some more drawing as my initial draft was not enough detail. I was getting "lost in the leaves" . .
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Still early days.
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13:25
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13:25
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A reminder of where I am heading . . .
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15:05
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15:05
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Yesterday the treats were a few new paints, really runny acrylics. Never worked with those before. I had to figure out a way to save the paints and conjure up my old watercolour tray. It spends the night in a zip-lock bag. seems to work so far. In doing my conjuring, I managed to find a treasure trove of fine brushes!
Today's post is yesterday and today's output.
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17:25
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17:25
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Again, today's post is yesterday and today's output. More blocking in, nice to play on white canvas. Details later, one leaf at a time.
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20:20
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20:20
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Not too much to show for today's labours. Ran out of daylight again.
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22:25
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22:25
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A reminder of where I am still heading . . .
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24:15
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24:15
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Moving up in the world. Rainy day here. For some reason, nice to paint . . even though it is dull. Magnificent dawn today, perhaps that is why I am on a roll.
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26:25
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26:25
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Doing my update in the middle of the day now, when there is more light. Gets dark so early now. Might try to work over to the left a bit later today. But there may be other items on my agenda.
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28:35
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28:35
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Getting up towards the last area, slowly. I was thinking I would reach that area by tomorrow, Monday 20th November. Well . . . not quite. Might zoom up tha last bit before I settle down to fine details. I have the painting split up into eighty squares . . . maybe as many as four squares a day? Hmm, another three weeks or so . . .
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30:40
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30:40
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Topping out in the next two days?
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32:45
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32:45
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The lyrics sung by Kermit the Frog - "It's not easy being Green" . . kept popping into my head today . . .
. . . I can't imagine why . . .
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34:55
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34:55
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Two short sessions only today, other projects on the go and my back is sore. Overdid the yard work as usual.
Tomorrow will see the white vanish . . maybe?
As you will see below, did manage to cover the white!!
From here on, in the next phase, I will just do each group of four squares and you can search for them on the original ;-)
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36:15
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36:15
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38:00
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38:00
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Worked on the first of twenty boxes in my grid - did the bottom right hand corner today. Might take between two and three hours for each of the boxes. I will see if I can just keep adding in this format. Maybe twenty days to go . . . or so.
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41:00
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41:00
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Dare to compare . . .
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43:20
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43:20
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I see I missed a bit at the right hand side - will go back and revisit that area sometime - remind me please.
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45:20
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45:20
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17
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Up one row tomorrow . . . No:16
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46:20
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46:20
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After only one hour on the painting yesterday, I had to put in three today. Tomorrow, No:15, moving left, looks as though it might need the same amount of brush time. Oh yes, I did finish the part I missed earlier.
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49:30
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49:30
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| No update, too dark to take a snap. I need another hour to finish No:15, will do tomorrow morning. |
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51:30
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15
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Still trucking along . .
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53:50
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53:50
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| One more tomorrow No:13 which will complete the second row from the bottom. Just one hour today finishing No:14 as I had websites to take care of and also my monthly DHC-2.COM Calendar pages to do. |
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54:50
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54:50
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13
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Bottom two rows completed. Can you see the demarcation?
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56:45
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56:45
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Back where I started really, short session today on square No:12.
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12
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58:15
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58:15
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Halfway point . . .
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60:25
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60:25
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The countdown continues, tomorrow No:9 and the completion of the third row.. Maybe sixteen or so hours left? Maybe?
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62:25
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62:25
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09
I missed a bit, will catch it when I do No:05.
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Up . . up . . up . . .
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64:35
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64:35
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Today needed three hours, but I stopped early. Might finish tomorrow if No:07 does not need too much work. I have a feeling it will demand at least three hours.
Update: Spent just under three hours, mostly on No:07 but about forty minutes on the edge of No:08 - fussing with that tricky turquoise!
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08
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66:50
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66:50
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07
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Still plugging away . . .
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69:40
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69:40
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Good long day today, so No:6 is done and dusted. As a result, my website updates are running behind! Ah well,
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72:50
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72:50
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Only four more days . . eh?
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74:35
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74:35
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The countdown continues. Tomorrow, No:03, might need at least three hours, a lot needs to be done on that block.
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04
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77:10
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77:10
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03
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Two blocks left . . . two days.
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79:15
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79:15
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About three more hours tomorrow should see this painting "complete" . . well, when I am calling it so.
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82:45
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82:45
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That's a wrap!
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84:30
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84:30
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Completed - Framing next year!
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