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outlanderSenior Contributor
Hi all the arty people out there
Im expandibg more on learning how to draw
Ive recently brought water colours
Can you please give me tips and dos and donts of this sort of pencil?
When drawing do you use the water colours draw the whole pic then paint over in water or do you do it in sections?
@Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member
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Oh Faith, I'm so sorry you were bullied. It almost hurts thinking of you being picked on! I know everybody gets bullied, I was very, very quite at school - that just makes all the kids decided there's something very, very wrong with you. But I think I made some of the best friends in that school, the other quiet 1's like me 🙂
Thank you for putting so much into your reply 
& for gently guiding my thoughts to a much more confident place. I'm not about to go into a coffee shop, but you've given me an idea - I wonder what lines, shapes and colours would come to me out in my forest?
What's your art thread called, I was trying to find it to put my 'doodle' in it, not that Claire's art thread isn't wonderful too 😄 But I'd love to have a look at your morning sketches, I just can't for the life of me remember what it's called.
Love to you Faith
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oops . . . forgot to tag @Faith-and-Hope
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
The art thread I use on LE Forum is Through Ones Eyes @Former-Member .....
There was a teacher at my daughter’s school who used to say, “Once you get beyond High School, geeks rule ! They do well in uni, and a career, and evrrybody wants to be them !!”
🤗💕
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outlanderSenior Contributor
i love your drawing @Faith-and-Hope this one (the coloured one) is my favourite so far
oh how clever of you Niqua, so unusual and intriguing! @Former-Member
also here is the other art thread
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