Carl Chapple

Regular painter. Occasional decorator. No longer posting here.
@carlchapple.bsky.social

[Carl Chapple @carlchapple]

Not posting here anymore. Shuffling over the @carlchapple.bsky.social to be with my three followers.

Huzzah!

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Sofia Pereira De Oliveira
Oil on canvas
40cm x 50cm

#portrait #portread #celf #portraiture #oilportrait

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Fun online session with Drawing is Free this morning. Bunch of fine people taking it in turns to pose for four or five mins, while the rest make portraits. Big thanks to Chloe and artists/sitters.

Here are a few of my less awful results.

#charcoaldrawing #portraiture

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The stars have aligned! A special @hellobuglers *and* a special @beansaladpod *on the same day*!

[John Finnemore @JohnFinnemore]

Geeeeeettttt…. DRESSED ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay! For it is Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day! It’s Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day… it is Chri-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-histmas daaaaay!

Love,
The Airport.

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If anyone would like my caramelised Brussels sprouts on sticks recipe, do drop me a line.

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If anyone’s looking for inspiration re Christmas tree decorations, here’s a lovely idea spotted in Prague recently.

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Hats off to @HenryPaker for his tremendous short story in this week’s TBS. Here in full:

“He then suggested they go skinny dipping in an oxbow lake. He jumped in and she drove off”.

Humanity, economy, and brutal pathos. A Dorothy Parker for our age.

[Three Bean Salad Podcast @beansaladpod]

Monumental new beans. But who is the 4th head? Answers on a postcard. https://t.co/n5k8oliGCl

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Managed to coax the demure Miss B (AKA Gaia Cicolani) into sitting for a portrait. A couple of prep sketches here, exploring poss poses and compositions. Oil on panel.

Canvas to follow.

#portraitpainting #peintioportread #celf

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Sunday Life Drawing yesterday. Poses by Sofia. Pictures by Corey, Ceri and me.

Due to international shortage of life models at Christmas, upcoming session on Dec 22nd will be with marvellous model Lila, creating clothed poses for portraiture/figure drawing.

#sundaylifedrawing

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First landscape picture for a long time.

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Ballet Cymru dancer Mika George Evans (in the guise of a 1950s Bulgarian collective farm worker, musing optimistically about her future)

Oil on panel
27cm x 11cm

#painting #dance #portread #celf #portreadaeth #portraiture #portraitpainting #ballet #cymru

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We live in a cruel and unjust universe.

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Sanea Singh
Oil on panel
18cm x 23cm

#balletcymru #celf #painting #portraiture #portread #portrait

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@WillHayCardiff I find the question as baffling as asking what constitutes a British or Italian or Nigerian value. Whenever anyone cites something positive about their national identity, it's generally some virtue that certainly exists in the country, though similarly exists everywhere else.

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James Knott
Oil on panel
18cm x 23cm

#painting #oilpainting #celf #dawns #dance

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Sunday Life Drawing with Sofia yesterday. Five- to twenty-min poses. Pictures here by Emily and me.

Next sessions Dec 8th and 22nd.

#sundaylifedrawing #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #celf

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Technically a dance picture (Gwen rehearsing Momentum, by Marcus Willis), though perhaps more a simple portrait.

Gwen Davies
18cm x 23cm
Oil on panel

#celf #dawns #portrait #portread #portraiture #welshart

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Pictures by Heidi, Sue, Ceri and me from yesterday’s Sunday Life Drawing. Three-min to twenty-min poses by Gaia.

Next sessions set for Nov 24th and Dec 8th with Sofia.

#sundaylifedrawing #lifedrawing #charcoaldrawing #celf

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Already have three followers on #bluesky ! YES!

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