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Saturday 6th June 2009Painting Class ~ Lessons 2 & 3During our last two lessons we have been working on our paintings. We started out using a thin brush and ochre coloured acrylic paint to draw an outline of our work onto the canvas. I still wasn't 100% sure how I wanted it to look when I started but I knew I wanted it to include foxgloves. You can just about see the outline of the foxgloves in the picture above. We then applied a wash of background colours. Once that was dry we added background colour to the foxgloves themselves in various shades of light and dark to add depth to ...
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Friday 29th May 2009Painting Class ~ Lesson 1I have recently started taking painting lessons. I have a lot of painting equipment at home and have made a few dire attempts at it but I wasn't getting the results I wanted. I decided I really needed some expert guidance on painting techniques so I asked around the community here and someone very kindly introduced me to an artist who was willing to give lessons. It turns out that there are a few other ladies interested in improving their brush strokes as well and so we started lessons. Our teacher is a very lovely Russian artist called Lena. She has been ...
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Monday 18th May 2009Bumper CarsLast week we had a little incident with the car. I was at the supermarket doing the weekly shop when unbeknown to me someone hit our car whilst trying to park behind it. I didn't notice until I was about to get in the car to go home. Here is a picture of the damage to our car, as you can see the bumper is pretty dented and the light facing is broken. We managed to track down the offending vehicle and waited outside for the owner to return. Thankfully he was very nice and happy to pay for the damage. ...
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Friday 10th April 2009Baku City Neighbourhood ~ PicturesThis week a few of us wandered around the local neighbourhood and spent the afternoon taking pictures. We got many curious looks from the local community. The majority of people thought we were media, I guess they don't see many people taking pictures just because they like taking them. Spring is definitely on the way! The fruit and vegetable stands are already starting to sell some of my favourite spring/summer fruits. I brought a pineapple the other day that was so juicy and delicious I ate the whole thing to myself! I want to come back here at night and take a picture of ...
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Wednesday 4th March 2009New Marriott Hotel in BakuThis is the new Marriott hotel that is going to be built in place of the Hotel Absheron. Many other hotels, residential buildings and business centres are being built all over Baku, you can see some of the pictures here.