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Over the last few months I have needed to take a look at how I paint , from the physical perspective due to a continuing hand problem.
This and coupled with the research I do for the inspiration thread has encouraged me take a closer look at who actually influences me .
I don’t mean who do I paint like or want to paint like but more of who’s work do I like to see the most and has probably had a influence on my own work or influenced my choices of subjects.
Now I thought this would be an easy task and I could forum of a few artists that I particularly like and enjoy, no way was it that easy when you start to really look .
I soon realised that there are a very large number of artists who I admire and say that they have an influence on me , but for the most I like there work and find it inspiring.
Looking back the twenty of more years I’ve painted it mostly the ones whom I initially liked and wanted to paint like .
So not in any order of importance or how much they have influenced me this is my top list , I’m sure if I looked hard there would be more to add to the list.
David Bellamy , Rowland Hilder, Alwyn Crawshaw, Peder Mork Monsted , John Blockley , Ann Blockley , Gordon Beningfield and just recently William Fraser Garden ( wish I had know his work sooner ) are the main ones following close by
Turner , Constable, Singer Sargent then many that I like .
Who are the artist that actually influenced and still influence you and which art the ones who actually influence your work .
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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I have a tendency to think if the last exhibition I went to, Paul. So Velasco for landscapes at the moment. I went to the Munch portraits show at the National Portrait gallery, and the picture they chose for catalogue cover, and exhibition poster is fantastic. The rest, not so much. Whilst there I went to search out the Omai portrait by Joshuah Reynolds...the NPG have had the cheek to sent it on tour, even to the LA Olympics and it won't be back till 2029 I fear.
But that's just this week
Van Gogh blew my socks off, as did Singer Sargent. I also like Bellamy and Mork from your selection. Also the Scottish colourists and the Experessionists, as I'm mostly into oil these days.
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I think for me it has always been Botticelli and DaVinci. Then Rosetti, Burne -Jones and Waterhouse of the more classical artists. But I have a fondness for John and Paul Nash, Revilious, E.H.Shepherd, Arthur Rackham, Molly Brett, Jesse Wilcox Smith, Paul Roberts, Alfred Bestall.
Favorite great art moments. Being in Chigaco art gallery and asking where the 2nd Beata Beatrix by Rosetti was. They said please wait. The curator came and took me to a private viewing. Other moment seeing DaVincis Annunciation in the Uffizi. I actually had to go back a few days later as I could not take in the powerfullness of the art. I had gone there to see the Botticelli primavera, turned round and the Annunciation made me gasp.
Who influences my work now, probably all the childrens book illustrators from my childhood.
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by Julie White
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I'm undergoing a similar re-evaluation of how I work. I don't have Paul's problems, but he still manages very well. In my case it's just old age kicking in, my art is mostly affected by my jerky old hands. Using brushes is difficult, but I'm still OK with pens and pencils. But my use of them is much slower than used to be the case, instead of quickly drawing lines I now have to draw very slowly. This doesn't matter, because I have bags of time. I need to curb my impatience. If what took me a day or two now takes a week (for example), what does it matter? I keep trying with brushes but it gets frustrating. The pic below had been an attempt to paint entirely with watercolour alone. But I was having a bad 'jerky hands' day, and my brushwork was all over the place. I made a right mess in the chin area, and tried, unsuccessfully, to lift out the watercolour paint. So I completely reworked over the watercolour with soluble coloured pencils, this didn't solve the dodgy chin area, so I used a white pen and gave him a heavy beard (he started out beardless).
So I got a result, even if it wasn't quite the one I'd intended. I'm well aware many others around my age (I'm 85) will have similar problems, and need to make adjustments. Renoir continued painting when afflicted with severe arthritis. Edward Burra, a watercolourist, contracted arthritis in his twenties, and went on to make a career in art. All I've got is wobbly hands. So for me, it'll mostly be pen and pencil stuff from now on...and maybe watercolour where accuracy doesn't matter too much.
On the subject of the time it takes me to make my pictures, I get inspired by artists like this fella (Rick Shaefar), he works in pen and ink, producing vast drawings that take him months to complete. So it's pen and ink for me, although size-wise, I won't be going this far.
As for inspiration...ALL art inspires me. It may be genres that don't appeal, that I'm unlikely to attempt myself, like still-life and landscape. Seeing art, and what people can do, is inspiring. ALL of it.
So I got a result, even if it wasn't quite the one I'd intended. I'm well aware many others around my age (I'm 85) will have similar problems, and need to make adjustments. Renoir continued painting when afflicted with severe arthritis. Edward Burra, a watercolourist, contracted arthritis in his twenties, and went on to make a career in art. All I've got is wobbly hands. So for me, it'll mostly be pen and pencil stuff from now on...and maybe watercolour where accuracy doesn't matter too much.
On the subject of the time it takes me to make my pictures, I get inspired by artists like this fella (Rick Shaefar), he works in pen and ink, producing vast drawings that take him months to complete. So it's pen and ink for me, although size-wise, I won't be going this far.
As for inspiration...ALL art inspires me. It may be genres that don't appeal, that I'm unlikely to attempt myself, like still-life and landscape. Seeing art, and what people can do, is inspiring. ALL of it.
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by Lewis Cooper
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I agree Lew all art is inspiring, I’m inspired every day when I look at our gallery with what the people using it post there are some fantastic artists among us. I was making a distinction between who inspired and influenced me and still does to a great extent and those who I admire and find inspiring, the latter list would be never ending as each day I find someone in the art world who is inspiring. As to working with wobbling hands , well we just get on with it out bodies and minds can adapt if we give it time and of course we do need to make adjustments, I have become used to my hand feeling light it’s a steel gauntlet, good job as post surgery apparently it’s going to stay like it but a bit more movement. Hells be,Les I will have to get used to using it differently again , xxdv tv dub it ( polite swearing ) .
Just you keep those daily Coopers coming , the characters are excellent and the humour is great , and your an inspiration even if you don’t like the idea .
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Okay, there are ways around your problem if you use another paint. Paint a wobbly line, then straighten either side by painting up to it. Maybe water down acrylics. Will that have the same feeling of water colours?. Then use a thicker acrylic when straightening out. Also, if you have wobbly lines, can you incorporate it into your work anyway?
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by Martin Shaw
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Martin I’ve given up worrying about wobbly lines , apart from ships and boats most of the stuff I paint or sketch doesn’t have straight lines anyway, never seen a tree with perfect angles and rule straight branches . In fact the odd inadvertent wobble has being a benefit, and unfortunately sometimes I can’t replicate it . We do what we do and learn to use what we have , any artwork produced is better than not producing any at all.
Wobbling on wobbling free , wobbling painter are we .
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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Yes Martin. I’ve ordered a tube of white acrylic, also there’s apparently a very opaque white drawing ink that’s supposed to cover pretty much anything. I’ve ordered that today. If it works ok with a dip pen that’ll hit the spot…since I can use pens better than brushes. I’ll let you know how I get on.
Wobbles or not, I’ll keep at it.
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It's very difficult when as we get older or have conditions that affect our art. As you know in other replies on the forum I had to change when I got fibromyalgia. My hands tremor at times and I have spasms in my arms. Holding the coloured pencils I once did realist pictures in is to painful. Mind you everything is with this. We are all different artists but I changed my style to embrace the wobbly line, make a virtue of it. In most of my paintings only the horizon is straight. We all feel our creative losses and I feel for you. Its downright horrible. I've actually been lucky and prefer what I do now. So I agree with Paul we do adapt and we do get on with it. I have to agree with Martins suggestion incorporate the wobbly lines if you feel able to. It's all much easier said than done when one has wobbly hands. I think we all do very well with age and other nasty conditions.
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