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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week eighteen bonus artist , I’m posting it early due to commitments this evening the featured artist is William Heath Robinson 1872 - 1944.  Cartoonist, illustrator and artist , he is better known for his whimsically elaborate  drawings of machine's to achieve a simple task. The term a Heath Robinson contraption entered the dictionary around 1912. I have deliberately avoided his illustrations and cartoons and concentrated on some of his fine watercolour paintings . I hope you enjoy all of his work , it’s fun and lighthearted I have spent several hours looking at his work and enjoyed every minute of it. 
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Michael Edwards

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I'm a life long fan of his whimsicals and have a large volume of his works but I think this is the first time I've seen his 'straight' work and he sure has a style of his own - quite intriguing;  look forward to seeing more. 
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Lewis Cooper

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Heath Robinson is one of my favorite artists.  Brilliant pen and ink and wonderful watercolours. Here's one I like... He's also famous for his wacky inventions...here's his take on the wig industry. The man was a genius.

Sylvia Evans

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Oh he so was a genius....I loved his stuff and had forgotten all about it .  Thanks for the memories .  Am enjoying looking at his"straight" paintings.    
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Pick some put Sylvia and post them it nice to see what others like. 

Denise Cat

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I've not come across him and it has been a real treat looking through his work. It has been really fascinating. Many of them caught my interest really. Here are a few. The Egg and Spoon Race. Epistemon. Ch.LXIII. Book IV, 1900 Fairer rationing. Rationing butter by the weight of the customer. Some Close Shaves at St. Andrews.

Jenny Harris

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Sorry, duplication.

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Jenny Harris

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I love his work, had seen some in the past, but just looked at more and picked out a few.  

Tessa Gwynne

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I think his work is fabulous, so cleanly drawn and such great imagination and the skill to portray it. Here are a few more that made me laugh, the first is The Folding Garden Next Testing Artificial Teeth in the Modern Tooth Factory But also a landscape as I read that he became annoyed by being referred to as ‘just a cartoonist’ and obviously he wasn’t and I do also like his style of landscape painting which I wasn’t aware of.  I like all of the previous selections above, but the Egg and Spoon Race is particularly good!
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Russell Edwards

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An extraordinary artist!

Jenny Harris

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In looking at more of his work I came across that of his brother Charles Heath Robinson who was also a book illustrator and worked in the Art Nouveau style. These are two of his beautiful illustrations - Paul, perhaps we could look at him separately, maybe following on as another week’s bonus artist?

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Tessa Gwynne

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Apparently he had another brother Charles who was also a very talented illustrator in a similar style. Reminds me of the Wyeth family who we looked at previously. 
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