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I do like the Cezanne also.. I agree that Marjorie produces some wonderful still life work, an award winner no less. I do enjoy seeing some of them on the gallery but it's not for me.
I must confess that I haven't really painted or drawn a still life since my college years. It was used as an important exercise in observation and accuracy, and for honing one's drawing skills. We were taught to spend as much time looking at the relationship of the negative spaces within the objects as we did to the objects themselves. (if that makes sense!).
And it worked for me, I can look at objects and produce a reasonably accurate representation, not that I put this into practice so much these days. Sorry, but I still can't summon up any enthusiasm for it personally, perhaps I just did too many of them years ago.
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Ref still life: Although not a favourite topic for me, I can enjoy applying my own style to objects and finding it interesting. I'm just not a fan of photographic anything in art, although copying others' work for practise does no harm. There have been some terrific still life's by almost all the master painters over time. (Master painters includes both sexes. I absolutely refuse to say "Mistress painters" just to conform to political bullxxxx!) So there...😆
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Jen, I devoutly hope you're right about that.
Protagonists both - some of us can see both of your points of view, and it's just a pity that you can't: but next time, try the counting to ten trick: not in reverse, in the count-down to blast-off sense either. I'd like to get you together face-to-face (with a referee, obviously) because what is actually separating you is such a small theoretical disagreement which has now acquired so many layers that the original point has been lost; and I really doubt that the occasional onlooker is going to understand it - although that onlooker is likely to be baffled and distressed by these outbreaks that now cross from one thread to another. One of you is going to drive the other away at this rate, and I don't want to lose either of you - I'm sure none of us does.
It's happened before - and we've never been better off for it.
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Eee the internets an odd place at times isn't it Robert.
Sometimes the most lovely of people can come across all wrong.
Things can be read in the wrong way. People can pretend to be something they are not. Nothing quite like face to face seeing and speakin with people. We can then use that extra sense we all have of reading little signals people give off, to tell you if they are joking, being honest or even sometimes lying.
One reason why i tell all my single mates to go out and meet people face to face, dont internet date, you cant read the people that way.
I hope neither of you leave, and whatever its over it can be put to bed and yous can move on.
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I've only just found this thread, and I must say it's been a real treat reading through the replies and expressed preferences. The reasons, especially, were particularly illuminating. Coincidentally, I'd been thinking about this very same thing, mainly because I've recently ventured out of my comfort zone to try my hand at something new. IE Street Scenes. Never really painted them before and I received such good advice and help along the way that I was encouraged beyond belief. I eventually liked the final painting, but what a struggle. When I've recovered I'll try another one. *smile*
There are three areas that fascinate me, and they are subjects that I'll return to over and over again, because in them I find emotions that feel almost poetic. They move me, and the opportunity to present something of how I feel is ever-present, always there. I know it's a bit self-indulgent of me, but I promise you, there's a bit of me in every seascape, snow scene and mountain scene I paint. Lob in a bird or two and I'm as happy as a sand boy. The quality varies but the feelings remain as a constant, and so I keep trying, listening, learning, observing and commenting as we all try to find that indefinable something.
I'm in the process of painting a 90 x 90 cms painting of waves and kittiwakes, in oil, and it's taking forever. The canvas seems massive to me, and I'm running out of paint, but I hope to the high heavens I can get it to work (Not really running out of paint btw). However, there's an excitement to be found in the attempt, and hopefully a sense of achievement at the end.
I tend to avoid still life but admire the exponents of this genre. Sometimes they take my breath away, especially when I see a great example of still life hidden in a larger work. I have never painted a portrait in my life, unless the face is part of an actual scene, but I have drawn dozens of portraits using charcoal (favourite medium) and pencil. I've also had some spectacular failures. I tried to do quick copy of Rabbie Burns for Burns Night, and could see him emerging on the page, only to watch him fade into obscurity as the drawing progressed. USELESS!! Never did finish him but I WILL try again. *lol*
Interestingly, I find abstract work very attractive, at times, often enjoying the possibilities presented by the artist. However, for me, there's too much chuck-it-on-and-see doing the rounds, and this tends to put me off a bit. That said, one of my friends from another site is an abstract artist and his work is GREAT! imho. So, ultimately, it takes all sorts, and it's the "all sorts" that make art such a wonderful area of study AND a much loved source of pleasure.
Best to all
Brian
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When I first joined POL I registered as Beemax (Brian Mackay). I messed it up and was advised to try again, or something along those lines.
So, the above lengthy response to the question is definitely from Brian Mackay, just in case you were wondering who Beemax was.
If this registers as Beemax I'll try a quick post on the Gallery to see if it's a permanent switch. Don't know what's happened.
Bri
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Well, that was an interesting read :)
Likes (loves): Cars, trainers, anything abandoned or decayed, photorealism (lights the blue touch paper...)
Unlikes: not much really, possibly landscapes which aren't really for me, I struggle with some of the more out-there conceptual modern art.
I definitely work on the 'each to their own' school of thought with peoples' particular passions, as long as they afford me the same courtesy.
Anth.
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The Cons is one of my personal favourites, and the scrapyard painting is based on a photograph I took at a yard in Barnsley in around 1990 (got loads of reference from that shoot, it's a series waiting to happen!) Also went to a local site to pick some building materials up and the owner had stuff lying around all over the shop (another series waiting to happen).
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