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<p>In a change from our advertised programme, our First Friday
demonstration for July will be given by Nishad Karim, one of our
members. I am grateful to him for filling in at short notice. The
topic fits in nicely with our upcoming exhibition theme for the
Beckenham Place Park exhibition. Nishad will be painting quite a
large water colour and talking about his approach and methods as
well as technique. He is an art teacher by profession and in
addition has a youtube channel of his own, so we expect a slick
and polished demonstration - No pressure Nishad!</p>
<p>Nishad pointed to this by way of biography
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nishadkarim.co.uk/nishadkarimart">https://www.nishadkarim.co.uk/nishadkarimart</a></p>
<p>but <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nishadkarim.co.uk/">https://www.nishadkarim.co.uk/</a> looks interesting too and the
galleries show paintings from both his native Trinidad and Tobago
and from parts of his adopted South London area. <br>
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<p>The Zoom details are at the end of this email.<br>
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<p>In other news, you may recall my passion for the open source and
free digital art programs Inkscape and Gimp</p>
<p>Inkscape (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://inkscape.org/">https://inkscape.org/</a>) has just released its first
series of official releases as the version 1.1, after making its
reputation in "pre-release" versions for the last 18 years.
Whatever the oddities of the numbering this release has many new
features that I have not studied in detail yet. Inkscape is a
vector drawing program, whose commercial counterpart is Adobe
Illustrator. <br>
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<p>Gimp - a bitmap editor and therefore rival to Adobe Photoshop -
has a more conventional numbering scheme for its releases. It is
clearly limbering up for a major release at 3.0 soon. Download the
current version or trials of the new version at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gimp.org/">https://www.gimp.org/</a></p>
<p>Have a look at what the experts can do with them, eg at</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fineartamerica.com/art/inkscape">https://fineartamerica.com/art/inkscape</a></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pixels.com/shop/canvas+prints/gimp">https://pixels.com/shop/canvas+prints/gimp</a></p>
<p>and many other sites</p>
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<b>Adrian Fowle<br>
Chairman, Bromley Art Society</b></div>
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<div class="moz-signature">Adrian Fowle is inviting you to a
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