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hi im a newbie i drive for a living but paint in my spare time. chooky related items. from pieces of old timber and slate. iv been painting for a while now self taught, but its good to use old pieces as i think its more eco friendly its taken off ok now but was very slow to start with. theres so many talented nice members on here. its good to share info and ideas. keep posting. {hug}
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Hi Painterman and welcome to DTL! Your paintings sound very interesting. Any chance of a few piccies pretty please? :-D
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Hi redd angel. heres a couple hope you like em
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these are just a few . il post more if members like em. if not thats ok too.
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Fantastic
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I love the slate paintings - we've got lots of the stuff lying around our place, but I could never even begin to do what you do, you are very talented.
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Fab pictures :-D
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They are brilliant, talented indeed )t'
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OMG they are beautiful, more pictures please. Do you sell them?
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[center]thanks for ur nice comments heres some more if thats ok[/center]
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the sign is real but the lettering is mocked up as they wasnt sure of which font they wanted +confused+
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and yes i do sell them but i didnt want to give that impression when i posted as it was just to show what i did with reclaimed materials )w(
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oh i love the last picture of the fresh farm eggs. its fab :-D .
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some more signs iv added on the hobbies section )t'
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hi everyone..iv recentley come into some old saws. so i thought id paint one up.
its not a new idea as iv seen painted saws on the web done by our american friends lol. but wanted a chooky theme hope u enjoy my efforts >eas2<
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I like the saw, what a brilliant idea, hmmm must have a dig round in some skips to see what treasures I can find
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Lovely work!
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