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Michael Edwards

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Unless you are into photorealism (which I'm decidedly not) does it really matter? Even in real life it's not often immediately evident which is the direction of flow if viewed from the sort of vantage point on which most paintings are based. Even in the picture by Erebus posted above the flow is only discernible if studied in some depth (forgive the pun) and even then you can't be entirely sure. Who, when viewing a picture, would get uptight about it anyway? The important thing (unless you are painting calm water) is to indicate movement ripples, turmoil - it is the effect that matters - unless, of couse, you are into photographic accuracy.

Phil Kendall

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Sorry folks with my images going walkabouts...this site is two different beasts on my iPad where adding a photo is a an easy option from the cloud drive. But on the large iMac adding images is a pain but using the entire site is easy on the iMac...as long as I avoid clipping bits off the image data line...
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Robert Jones, Napa

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It's a she, and this is her website - found by visiting her account profile. http://sueosullivanarts.com/about-me

Sylvia Evans

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I think boredom set in .
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Er well, um ---- that's a point of view, of course.... My point was that she is a real person who had a real question - I wasn't really inviting a critique of her work; which varies in quality - as most of ours does.... Come back, Sue ducks ..... we're not really trying to frighten you off..... Even if it might look like it......
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