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Ooooooooh can we have some more art work Di, your drawings are majical and we haven't had any since July, just one to keep us going for another few weeks, pretty please with sugar on!!! :smitten:
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Special one for Christmas Di, please...nothing like a nice picture from one of our great
resident forum artist's
 
Barrow Street Much wenlock.jpg Ok Girls :smitten:

I don't have any more of Birmingham, but this is a favourite place of ours in lovley Shropshire. It's the town of Much Wenlock and the watercolour is of Barrow Street.
 
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Di what is the size of the canves. That is a excelent piece of art,just like to see it in real size.
 
Thankyou Di, that is lovely, really missed your drawings :smitten: :smitten:, that will keep me going till the new year now :smitten: :smitten:
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Di that's wonderful. I am so wanting to visit UK again
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Di

That's absolutely wonderful. You are so talented.

Do you have any connections with that part of the country only my ancestors orginationed from around that area. Little Wenlock, Dawley and Madeley etc.

Regards

Fay
 
Fay Lewis said:
Di

That's absolutely wonderful. You are so talented.

Do you have any connections with that part of the country only my ancestors orginationed from around that area. Little Wenlock, Dawley and Madeley etc.

Regards

Fay
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Hi Fay, I have a Charles Ratcliffe from Madeley in my tree.

Nick
 
Nick

My ancestors were called Husselby/Husselbee etc etc (many variations of this name have been found). My tree on this side goes back to c1650 - all from the Shropshire/Shrewsbury area.

I had a drive out there earlier this year and it's a beautiful part of the country.

I have a recent photograph of a farm in Little Wenlock where my g g grandmother was working in 1841.

Regards

Fay
 
Di

Have you painted any more pictures from this area?

Regards

Fay
 
Thank you for your really nice comments. Glad it will keep you going Loisand :smitten:

it is a lovely part of the country Sylvia.

Robert, I paint in watercolour so its just a bit of paper about the size of a computer screen.

Brummie Nick, the old building on the right is the old Market Hall, I can't think of a tea room as such but there is a very old pub. Is it The Griffin? The food is great.

Fay, my husbands gt. grandfather left Shropshire and went to Birmingham in the 19th century, he was from Munslow. We have spent lots of holidays there, our last one was right on the river Severn in the olld bargee's cottage. I do have more I'll post one later.
 
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Used to out driving to Much Wenlock years ago. Lovely area for hiking. The painting is super Di. Thanks for the memories.
 
Di, I regard water colours as one of the hardest mediums to paint with, you do have a wonderful gift another great painting.
 
Abbots House Shrewsbury 0001.jpg

Thanks Crom and Jackie.

Here's another one of Shropshire. It's the Abbots House, tucked away in a passagway. I found it because it is next door to an art shop.
 
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Cor,you are indeed VERY talented.. :smitten:

I haven't looked further on the site yet, but do you have any more to share?

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Di, just seen your lovely picture of Much Wenlock. It really took me back over 50 years, 'cause when I was an architectural student, we all had to pick an old building of which we were to do a 'measured drawing', and I chose that very building, the Guildhall. That was in March 1954, and I remember I stayed in a little pub just up the road from a Monday to Friday, and (with permission), went round the cellars with pencil, pad and measuring tape, in and out of all the ground and first floor rooms, and crawled all round the roof space, on to as much roof as I could do in reasonable safety, up a ladder to measure the heights all round, and up the church tower to see a bit more of the roof, sort the chimneys, ridges and valleys which you couldn't see from ground level. Then when we got home, we had to do presentation drawings - plans, elevations and sections.
It was a pig of a building to draw because, being very old and made of timber, it was well out of level and leaning left right and centre, which we were supposed to record with clinical accuracy.
I paid a couple of return visits while I was doing the drawings, but I don't think I've been back since.
Thanks for the reminder, Di.
Peter
 
That is a lovely story Peter. I'm glad to have reminded you of it. Thank goodness for artistic licence eh, I measure with the tip of my paint brush. Thank you for telling me that of course it is the Guildhall and not the Market Hall. They do now hold markets in there on Saturdays.
 
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Di,
Hope you don't mind me fiddling with such lovely works of art - I thought they seemed a little over exposed so I've corrected them.
 
That's fine Paul. They are a little darker than the originals, I am a bit wishy washy I guess. :)
 
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