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June painting challenge

We had the highest number of entries yet to our June painting challenge on the theme of reflections. ‘The inspiration for my painting (above) came from a clock our sons bought us for our 25th wedding anniversary over 33 years ago,' Paul Hatton writes. ‘The reflections in the rotating pendulum have caught my eye ever since and I had meant to try to recreate them in watercolour. So, your challenge was the perfect opportunity to buckle down and try. The dome cover required a lot of careful lifting out but the real effort went into studying the detail of the reflections and where the light was coming from on all the component surfaces. It was the most I

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