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    Hpool_hunter Sorry to hear about the dog. The photo is excellent. If you are happy enough with the price and size then I’d love to give it a go. Eamonn
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    good point mate I normally work in watercolour using what’s know as ¼ imperial size paper. Before its framed it is roughly about the same size as a sheet of A3 paper (most home printers are A4, so A3 is the same as two of those pages side by side – apologies if you already know this). The mount and frame then increase the overall size depending on what you chose – usually by about 5 inches all round. What you end up with is a decent sized picture. I always use top quality paper (Arches Aquarelle watercolour paper, acid-free and chlorine free, made of 100% cotton fibres) and arti
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    I have a website but its is well out of date - too busy painting to update it. I'll try to hoke out a few more images and put them up on the Gallery tab here. Thanks for the encouragement. Eamonn
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    Adam R and Valleylad Thanks for getting back. I don’t mind working off photos as its almost impossible to get a likeness without using them. A few additional photos of the dog always helps especially a few head shots. The trick is to make it look like a painting of a dog instead of a painting of a 'photograph of a dog'. I charge £150 + p&p for a painting and you have the right to return it for a full refund if you are not happy with the result (no one has done that yet). I don’t normally frame the work as everyone (or their partner) has their own preferences. If you click on the
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    No problem, what do you have in mind? Eamonn
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    Thanks for the comments lads Eamonn
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    Doing an art demo the other night and they wanted me to depict movement and speed. Chose a lurcher as the subject but nerves got the better of me standing up there in front of about 40 people so much so that I finished it in double quick time. Eamonn
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    Nice work, good to get out on the water with something you made yourself. I made a stitch and tape open canoe a few years back and found the biggest cost was the epoxy resin. Last year I bought a small wooden clinker at auction and started repairing it. I hope to have it finished early next year. I was getting to some tricky bits when I came across this site http://www.loughneaghboats.org/ . I'm now working on the boat in their yard and getting lots of sound advice. The ethos is to persuade people to move away from plastic and petrol boats towards more traditional boats powered by sail and oa
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    Mick was certainly an all time great. My favourite is the one he did of Palace Issue. I’d hold on to the print if I was you, get if framed, put it on the wall and enjoy it. Eamonn
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    Hello everyone Every search I do on google seemed to point to this site so I finally signed up. Ive been hooked on reading the posts for quite a while now- beats working. I've not posted before but I have entered the article competition (my effort is doing crap at the moment). I enjoy fishing and shooting but my main interest is painting. I am also restoring a small wooden boat for the fishing which takes up a lot of time. I hope to get a 'Mike Brown' whippet next year when I finally finish a course I'm doing. I had thought about a lurcher (I had a beddy/whippet in the past) but thanks t
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