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Eulalia said:
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Hey, I know that place! I recognised it immediately, before I saw your title.

I'm honoured that you've made a fine painting of a castle in Galloway.

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It's Dunskey, on the Rhinns peninsula, the south-western point of Scotland,
looking across the Irish Sea towards the Ards in County Down.
What's left of it is mainly a mid 16th century tower-house,
but the lower walls are older. It belonged in 1620 to Hugh,
Viscount Montgomery of Great Ards - a probable ancestor
of the WW II General, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
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With pleasure, Eulalia. Once time I having peintures from the moderators homelands by me. Maybe.
 
It's coming on well - the rocks in Galloway, including where that castle stands,
are typically grey - Greywacke, ancient sandstones -
it's even called Grey Galloway (I think the local novelist S R Crockett
first used that phrase around 1900, but it's been recycled a lot since) -
but veins of quartz can make it sparkle, white crusts of barnacles
lighten the sea-cliffs, and the blue tinge is right too, reflecting the sky and the sea.
 
Eulalia said:
It's coming on well - the rocks in Galloway, including where that castle stands,
are typically grey - Greywacke, ancient sandstones -
it's even called Grey Galloway (I think the local novelist S R Crockett
first used that phrase around 1900, but it's been recycled a lot since) -
but veins of quartz can make it sparkle, white crusts of barnacles
lighten the sea-cliffs, and the blue tinge is right too, reflecting the sky and the sea.
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It's not the finish state. It need a few layers color more. But the colors drying very slow. I must wait a few days for the next step. Madiosi is not a Bob Ross, I know.
 
madiosi said:
It's not the finish state. It need a few layers color more. But the colors drying very slow. I must wait a few days for the next step. Madiosi is not a Bob Ross, I know.
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Something about her eyes, perhaps. They do not yet look quite "alive". I cannot really criticize - I can't paint.
 
Very lovely now, the evening sky is very much as it looks from my windows
(which happen to face the same way as that view of Dunskey)
after a damp day - and the delicately reflected light in the sea is just right.
 
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