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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks special thread , it a Free posting week , post a painting or two that you find particularly interesting and inspiring. I have gone with my all time favourite artist, Peder Mork Monsted as it was his paintings of trees that really inspired me and made me want to paint trees when I first started painting. I can’t pick one individual painting as I’m inspired by all of his paintings containing trees . 

Denise Cat

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These are stunning Paul.

Norrette Moore

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I'm a fan of Mork Monsted too.  There's some clarity that shines through...
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It’s nit just the big trees that he paints so well it’s also the background tree, he clearly knows and understand how they grow and definitely paid attention to how developed in different settings.

Jenny Harris

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I like best the first one you posted, Paul.   As it’s an ‘any medium’ week, I’m posting a few paintings from my favourite digital artist, the Japanese artist and illustrator Kaoru Yamada.  She has also quite recently started exploring ways of combining AI with digital, but this is some of her earlier work.   

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I can see why Peder Monsted is Dixie's favorite artist...astonishing work.  I like Jenny's choice.  I'm a fan of some digital art, and this one is excellent.  I kid myself I can spot digital art, but these don't have the look.  An admirable artist, that I shall explore. Two artists who've been featured in the series...Norman Thelwell to start... ...and here's one by Ronald Searle....his cats look nothing like cats, whilst at the same time looking exactly like cats... I have some old books for these artists, looking through them never fails to lift my spirits. I'll look for something different later.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Nice choice of pics Jenny , I don’t mind some of the digital art but like any painting I pick and choose what I like . Nice to see your two choices again Lew ,I agree about the cats but they definitely come over as cats very clever work .
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I would find it difficult to pick out one marine artist that inspires me as there are so many paintings I like and so many artist I admire. I have chosen three artist at random from my list of marine artists, first two are by David Curtis who I introduce a while back, the other two Yves Berube and Neil James .

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So difficult, but I’ll go for Ken Howard, who we sadly lost in 2022. All his subjects were interesting to me, but for the skill factor alone, I’ve selected a couple of oils from his models in a studio theme.  All these were large works, masterful in every aspect!
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So many brilliant artists, how can you choose? Two I have at hand, the first by Fred Cuming, all of whose work I love but this one a Still Life and the second by William Nicholson, aptly titled “ A Very Still Life”

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Caspar David Friedrich - View of the Harbour And wishing everyone a Merry Crimbo Boris Kustodiev (actually it's Shrovetime I believe)

Jenny Harris

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A Christmassy painting by Chris Dunn.  ‘Carol Singing Mice’ from his Wind in the Willows series of llustrations.

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