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Inspiration from Artists Week 14 : Sarah Adams and David Roberts.
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I’ve also largely stopped using canvases for the same reason Linda, and boards are easier to store and frame.
Your choice of David Roberts work and travels is very interesting, and especially the detail, clarity and size. The two year sketching trip sounds like a great idea! I shall look further at his work later, and yet another I had no knowledge of.
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It must be great to paint large like that. I was also unaware of this artist. I have just been looking through his work. What a marvel, it must have been for the Victorians to see this amazing artwork of places from afar. The light in his paintings is captured beautifully and equally there is a drama in how he paints the structures and architecture with the landscape.
Lower Portion of El Khasne Petra.
The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec.
Lower Portion of El Khasne Petra.
The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec. 
I found this painting of Ronda in Spain which I particularly like, perhaps because I like the colour range and the sense of scale and distance work.
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He was certainly fearless when it came to scale Tessa. I would have loved to have seen his theatrical scenery and dioramas. His Middle East project took 9 years in all! So you have to admire his determination too.
What drama with the centre of the archway about to fall Denise! He always put in people to show the scale, even though he does it in a bit of a “romantic” way. He might even have exaggerated the scale in this way. The view of El Khasne Petra that I showed is a little strange. I don’t think he could have sat far enough away to get quite that view. There is a cliff in the way! The chasm that you have to walk though to get there has been caused, by flash floods over thousands of years. The rest of the time it is arid desert, so the babbling brook and the tree are probably from his imagination/artistic licence.
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by Linda Wilson
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Linda you chose a really good artist who’s work is really good . I know some have that romantic look to them but that was what sold in his day. I do like the detailing and the figures added as you say maybe not to true scale but I certainly got the message across . We tend to forget that painting and sketches were the TV pictures of the time and as the do on tv the cut , enhance and make it look so much different than reality . I also suppose thing in the Victorian era reality wasn’t that good , escape from it a bonus. I have chosen several that I particularly like Simply because they caught my interest there are so many to choose from.
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Linda you chose a really good artist who’s work is very good . I know some have that romantic look to them but that was what sold in his day. I do like the detailing and the figures added as you say maybe not to true scale but I certainly got the message across . We tend to forget that painting and sketches were the TV pictures of the time and as the do on tv the cut , enhance and make it look so much different than reality . I also suppose thing in the Victorian era reality wasn’t that good , escape from it a bonus. I have chosen several that I particularly like Simply because they caught my interest there are so many to choose from.
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A very good selection Dixie. I notice , looking closer, that his figures are very animated. The third of your choice, is like two paintings in one. There’s something going on with the group of people, but you’re obviously taking in the whole of the wonderful building as well. Huge detail in most of these. I wonder how big they are? You may have said at the beginning Linda but I don’t want to scroll back and lose this!
