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street in Crafthole (image from Street View)

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map showing distance travelled (map from Google Earth)

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One of the things I like best about my virtual journey along the Cornwall coast – the names of the communities: Crafthole, Portwrinkle, Freathy !

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a dog looks at me from the window of a house in Crafthole (image from Street View)

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Today, I drove through Portwrinkle along Finnygook Lane.

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July 3, 2013 ‘Portwrinkle’ Jane Tims

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Here is an interesting  sequence of photos and a visual commentary on the width of the roads.  First, I see a truck coming toward the Street View car …

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Help! I am sure there is no room to pass! (image from Street View)

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Then we squeeeeeeeze past …

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I look back and I don’t see any indication we did pass (no tracks in the shrubbery for example) …

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And, I was so busy trembling over passing the truck, I almost didn’t see this door in the side of the hill …

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you’d miss it if you weren’t looking (image from Street View)

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July 8, 2013 ‘hidden door on Finnygook Lane’ Jane Tims

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Best View: houses in Crafthole …

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I am having fun trying to understand painting with watercolors.  I have always worked with oils or acrylic, but watercolors are quite different.  I love that the colors have a mind of their own.  If I allow the colors to go where they want to go, sometime the surprises are wonderful, sometimes, not.

I am trying to use less paint, more water.  This improves transparency and gives a fragility to the painting.

I am trying to clean my brush well and to freshen the water more often.  This prevents ‘muddiness’.

I am also trying to leave more white space.  This provides white ‘color’ and space for adding color as the painting progresses.

Here are two attempts at painting houses in Crafthole.  I include the original image so you can see my inspiration.  As you can see, I used lots of artistic licence.

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In #1, I like the scaling of the houses, the houses in the background, the gardens, the pinkness of the wall, and the grey house …  I don’t like the windows …

July 3, 2013 ‘houses in Crafthole #1’ Jane Tims

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In #2, I like the chimneys, the red door, and the background houses … I don’t like the windows however I think these houses have personality in their ‘lean’…

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July 3, 2013 ‘houses in Crafthole #2’ Jane Tims

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houses in Crafthole (image from Street View)

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Now, what do you think of that door in the side of the hill ??????

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Copyright  2013  Jane Tims