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Michael Edwards

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Depends on what you are using - on my desk top there are edit and delete boxes at the top right of each of my posts.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Deleting it is easy. Shifting is to another thread more of a problem. But if the point is that Davide could have done it himself - yes, he could! Several ways, but click on 'edit', then right click and 'select all', right click that and either copy or cut, then just paste it in the other thread. I did it for him because I'm a kindly old soul, and can be repaid in large cigars. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Incidentally, I did have a look at the Google searches, both for pictures on sunset on the sea, and then for paintings of same - leaving the photographs aside, because I suspect most of them have been extensively fiddled with to enhance the colour, the actual paintings are almost invariably utterly ghastly, or so I thought anyway.... Wonder what you all thought - I think perhaps I got lucky with a sunset painting once, and should have left it at that! Most of the paintings I've found so far have been gaudy, garish, and I wouldn't have wanted to paint them. It seems to be very hard to avoid making a bit of sock in the eye out of it..... unless, of course - you know better? (I have played about with my own picture, and will post it when I can get a reasonable photograph.) http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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There are however some magnificent sunset paintings on the website of the late Ken Bushe, who so tragically died earlier this year - well worth looking at, and how utterly puny my effort is by comparison. http://www.kenbushe.co.uk/html/latest_.html

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It's a hard call, really. Some REAL sunsets ARE a "sock in the eye"... they just make you stand there in awe of the colours and the beauty. -- so i can understand why some people paint punch-in-the-face colours for sunsets. Others are more subtle and subdued.. I guess it boils down to two main points - 1] what the artists sees, and 2] what he interprets/imagines/feels and wants to put onto the paper or canvas. If he/she sees a "WOW!" sunset and tries to capture than feeling... or sees a subdued sunset and want to paint that warm soft feeling of wellbeing and comfort.. Also - people are slave to group-think... most people want to see the colour that punch you in the brain. the subdues sunsets become "meh" to them... and some painter have to paint what sells or what others want to see..

Deb Lewis-Bizley

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I am so not qualified to crit this wonderful picture but if it were me I'd put a small (maybe scrubby!) tree in the right foreground which would emphasize the sense of near and far and make the picture much more dynamic.
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