Featured Bernard Cecil Gotch watercolour

its how long it looks for as well thats the bummer, 7 days straight by the looks

 

"more rain in you tea vicar"

 

My app says it stops raining here at 4pm. I have every faith in it

 

It's indoors I'm hoping. Otherwise I might be diving in the local 'spoons: 'Four Candles'

 

jokes aside, they are getting pretty damn reliable, even to the extent of " nah..i'll go out at tw0, its sunny then"

a lot more reliable than a little cardboard sun stuck on a map

 

i bet you get allsorts in spoons nowadays, looks a real mix of folk when passing. bet its good at christmas in there

 

They probably did. Good for Chin.

A lot of very cheap real estate though.

Mine too.

 

Fully furnished!

 

I'm chompin' at the bit to move over there-lease a flat,grab a train pass & buy a metal detector !

 

What you looking for? Loose change in my pockets?

 

Thanks for the details! That's farther out than I went, I stayed very close to the city centre but maybe next time...

 

Yeah sometimes it's better heading a bit out of town. City centres have a lot of foot fall and as soon as something nice is put out, it's snaffled. The smaller independent charity shops seem to price things a lot more fairly too. Such as hospice shops. That sounds bad doesn't it, but it's true. They tend to be a lot less commercial.

 

True here too. The smaller shops tend to know their audience and know what it's WORTH is different from what they can sell it for. The bigger shops research everything to the point that it's uncharitable.

 

Bellarmine Bottles,gold Saxon Torques-nothing too fancy.

 

20-carat blue diamonds would be OK too. They're nice rocks. Maybe some red beryls in need of a good home.

 

Yep-Right there on the foreshore beneath the Tate Modern bridge !

 

People have flushed odder things down the loo, and a girl can dream, right?

 

So I was concerned that the cardboard backing was leaching foxing through to the painting and decided to remove it. I also wanted to add a mount as it doesn't have one. Unfortunately they are glued together, so all I could do is remove the excess around the edges. I was hoping that it was just a line of glue applied around the edge. I thought if I could work through this then I could remove all the material from the centre. It looks like the whole painting is glued to the back board. I have had to abort mission through fear of damaging it.
I've found a mount exactly the right size and it's looking more presentable already. It would be great if I had the expertise to apply a more alkaline solution to the painting to try and neutralise some of the acid but I haven't got the expertise. I will practise one day on a naff painting maybe.

Anyway heres the mounted painting. Just need a suitable frame now.

 

100 times better mate, the blue offsets it really well looks a better painting now

 

it deserves that extra care, and it shows

you gonna keep or flog ?