Pastel of Newnham Mill pond, Cambridge, with punts and the Granta pub. Note the ducks swimming through the water lilies in the foreground.
#pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting

February 02, 2026 - 21:53 UTC

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I've limited response to this post because it has been subject to spamming
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Very Talented
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Ducks noted. *quack*
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Super work
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thanks for posting pictures of your work, I am really enjoying them.
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You think you are so talented, don't you, Richard.

-jealous
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Neurotic and full of self-doubt more like it George!
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It’s beautiful
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I love seeing your work here on BlueSky. This is definitely my favourite piece to date! Thank you for sharing.
PS Love the ducks.
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Luminous!
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Every time I see a Baker work of art I get taken in by the deeper levels of detail he brings to his craft.

Every single time.
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Just lovely.
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Lovely. That was almost the view from my office in Newnham Mill for 15 years. But you’ve missed out the aged carp in the mill pond!
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Awesomeness 👏
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Exceptional work sir
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I want to go there 🥰
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Lush 💙
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That is beautiful.
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😍 Beautiful!
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Love this
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What a beautiful picture! Such depth and vibrant colors!
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I like the works you post here. But this one…it’s special. Heartfelt. Thank you.
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Nice!
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There’s something timeless about this, like it wouldn’t seem out of place in a museum exhibit of century-old art. The colors are beautifully done.
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GORGEOUS 😍
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🙏
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Thank you for enriching my Bluesky page with these gorgeous paintings. Everything is enhanced that has art.
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Beautiful! Beau-tif-ful, like that word. Like, three, sil-e-bul! Punting, making a bet, what Carboniferous vertebrates started doing in floodplains caused by a close, gigantic Moon, thus we now have legs and arms with which to communicate, and language! Unique, in the history of life, here. Matisse?
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I live near the fens where hunters used to lie low in punts to shoot water fowl with huge guns for the dinner table in the days when nature wasn't under threat like it is now.
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Very nice.
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🥰 beautiful! Thank you.
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Like this one!!
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DUCKS LOVE TO 'PHOTOBOMB'
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I so love this - and thanks for the note about the ducks!
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Do you do commissions?🤞. Absolutely love your work!
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I used to, but not now. Age means one has to make the best of fleeting moments of energy and not being committed to tasks that one constantly feels like postponing!
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Wow! That’s beautiful!
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One of my favourite pubs from my time in Cambridge!
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👍
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Great !!!
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This is beyond beautiful so that’s all I can say!!!!
🙋🏼‍♀️💦🙏🏻💦💙🇺🇸THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING👍💦
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This may be my favorite. Love it!
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Beautiful
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Lovely
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Charming! Love the colors so much!
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Smashing variety of technical difficulty in this one. Great eye, nice lines, verticals and depth, still water (those subtle reflections), man's crafty influence, and yet filled with moving life everywhere.
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🥰❤️🥰
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Beautiful colors in your lovely painting
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Stunning
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Been to that very pub when I lived in Cambridge in 1985
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Gorgeously bosky. Such a timeless scene.
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Bravo
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I’d be proud of those ducks too, so full of movement . Love the whole picture though❤️❤️
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Very nice
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I wish your art lined my walls 🌺
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I am very envious of your skill. I once tried to draw, the result is often mistaken for what my five-year old produces.
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You do wonderful things with pastel!
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Thank you Ellen!
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There used to be a pizza place next door to the Granta called Sweeney Todd’s - it was a regular spot for us when we were hungry and fancied a pint in the pub afterwards (I’m talking 1976-79 or so…) 🍕🍺🥳
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Yes, used to take our child when small when he or friends were having pizza parties. You could see the workings of the old mill through the floor.
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Really pretty
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Oh Richard, I love this one. Thanks for sharing 👍
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In awe
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Did you paint this?
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I’ve been there! What a beautiful, evocative painting, Richard. 👍
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I just tried using pastels for the first time today.
They may be the hardest medium I've tried.
This painting is fantastic! The water and reflections and light are just wonderful.
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A lot of my larger pastels are on big sheets of off-white paper. You need paper with a tooth but not too rough. I have a range of pastels: soft for broad areas of colour and the harder square-profile ones from Faber-Castell or Conté. I keep them loose in a box with ground rice: just shake to clean!
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Amazing
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