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TedG
50/100 #the100dayproject I’ve made it to the halfway mark with my project of painting 10-minute landscapes using a limited palette!! It’s been a fun challenge so far, some days things click, other days it’s more of a mess, but I’ve learned something from each one. Keeping it small and simple has helped me focus on mood and shape instead of getting lost in the details, and it’s been a great way to stay consistent without the pressure of perfection.
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #field #poppies #spring #flowers #landscape #art
A wide field stretches into the distance, filled with delicate poppies swaying on tall stems beneath a soft, fading sky, with a line of trees silhouetted at the horizon.
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_The Evening Post_, 13 March 1925:
"POPPY DAY" FLOWERS
LOCAL MANUFACTURE URGED
A new avenue of employment for returned disabled soldiers, that of manufacturing the paper #poppies, which are at present imported from France and sold on “Poppy Day,” was touched upon at a meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association last night. Mr. Harrison, general secretary of the New Zealand R.S.A., said that “Poppy Day” was first inaugurated with the idea of making returned soldier organisations practically self-supporting. If the flowers could be manufactured in New Zealand, it would mean that from fourteen to twenty disabled men could be permanently employed. The contract with the French people for the supply of the poppies expired after the next "Poppy Day"… Until two years ago the British Legion obtained its poppies from France, but since then had made its own by the employment of disabled men.… Australia, until last year, got its flowers from France, but since then had made its own.
The proposal was carried unanimously, and will be forwarded as a remit to the Wellington Metropolitan Returned Soldiers’ Association’s Conference at Palmerston North.
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Black-and-white photo montage: Poppy Day In Auckland: Snapshots in Queen Street on April 24 During a Highly Successful Appeal for Funds in Aid of the Veterans’ Home and Disabled Soldiers. 1925. Description: A three-photo montage showing in the left and right photos a woman selling poppies to a man; all four are formally dressed in suits and wearing hats; the centre photo is a half-length portrait photo of a third woman poppy seller, who is wearing a fur shawl and a hat with an ostrich feather. Citation: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 30 April 1925, p. 47. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19250430-47-06. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/244159
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