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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I haven’t done a great deal, but I did do 3 portraits, of which this is the best one, all using the same reference picture, which is a painting by Cyprien Eugene Boulet.

I really like this painting.  I might have another go this week.

I bought a Dan Brown book "Origin" from a charity stall a few weeks ago.  I actually bought it for an art journal (to go with all the other books I have already bought!),  my husband read it and enjoyed it and now I am reading it too.  I don't think it is as good as previous books of his.  I read them for the story, but with a healthy dose of scepticism and Google by my side🤣🤣.   Some facts are interesting like details of a cult church with it's own pope, split from the R C Church, but I must admit I am a bit bored with it. 

My cold is gradually improving, thank you for all your good wishes.

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.  

In the post before this one, I showed some papers that I had made.  I printed out quite a few to take away with me and brought a whole variety of pens to see which ones worked best.  Unfortunately I  am down with a cold and haven’t felt like doing too much, but I have nearly completed three. 

The object was to see which pens worked best on the inkjet prints. They all seemed to work in that they didn’t effect the ink on the paper, but a lot of the colours didn’t show up as well as they would have done on a much paler background.   I still have a few more ideas to try out.

We are back in the caravan looking after my MIL, I haven’t actually seen her since the day after we arrived as I don’t want her catching this cold.  Last week we didn't have any Internet as my SIL had changed companies, but we have it now and a signal for the TV which means I have been watching both the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts series.

Looking forward to visiting you all later.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I made a sketch using a watercolour pencil and a stabilo pencil.  I downloaded a set of images from Arthouse Whimsey and used one as a reference.                

                        

For the next two pages I used some of the images free from the Women of the Word conference.  I printed them in circles and made some of a different colour for contrast.  I found the picture for Naomi online

My husband “found” a kingfisher ornament in the garden, all colour gone and decided I could repaint it!  I will take a photograph when it’s finished.