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Originally Posted by garinda
I rate my aesthetic taste more highly than your's.
It's a good painting.
The proportions of the Market Hall are correct, and the use of watercolour captures our wet, heavy, Lancashire skies very well.
I've worked on paintings, based on sketches done years earlier. Some right back into childhood.
Though sadly I haven't got any going far enough in time, in which you had hair.
I presume the plain white table mats were a present from the asylum?
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Well, thank you for proving my point - of course the proportions are correct - thats what happens when you copy from a photograph. You can get machines to do it for you now, or if you don't want to invest in one o'them, you can always send the piccy off to China with a few specs; within 28 days you'll get a nice oil or watercolour back at a total cost of about thirty quid (inc p & p). No doubt it would look good over your mantlepiece alongside the ducks.
My table mats, by the way, are Linum (thats a brand)...fourteen quid each from Selfridges a few years ago. As for the Asylum, I do believe that one of the standard treatments for the demented is to use childhood regression by getting the patients do sketches, followed by paintings, just as in the manner you describe. So where were you? Broadmoor..Rampton....? Pray tell.