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Christine Rogan

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Just spent ages looking through his website. What a find Paul. Love all his portraits- definitely a master portrait painter- but really like his watercolour portraits. The one Jenny posted is superb. Here are a few more. 

Tessa Gwynne

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While I recognise that his oil portraits are excellent I find them a bit glitzy for my taste and prefer his watercolours. I had chosen two which have already been picked so won’t repeat! Here’s another plus an oil portrait from his studio lessons he apparently does or did with a group passing on his skills, therefore a more casual look which I prefer. Also found a few of his landscapes.

Sylvia Evans

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That child is delightful. And yes I like the landscapes.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I am familiar with his work - via Youtube mostly - and much prefer his watercolours to his oils, because, and this may be due to no more than a desire to please his clients, the latter are particularly "American", by which I mean much the same as I think Tessa means: it goes without saying that they're skilfully painted, no problem at all with that; but they're (the portraits) slick, "positive and wholesome", which are not words of praise in my vocabulary, and polished until they gleam.  This is his style, it's what he does, it's hardly even criticism - but it's not for me.   On the other hand, the oil shown above is nowhere near as smooth with a capital "OO" as many of his others.  Incidentally, I get the very strong impression that all of the portraits shown are from photographs, not from life. The landscapes are excellent, in oil or watercolour.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some of his landscape and sketches . 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Seriously good landscapes, of impressive scale and depth.  I like that chalk/conté/pastel drawing, too.   He's scored into his paint with the 'wrong' end of the brush in one of his oils above (the last one shown): I always feel vaguely sinful if I do that..... I'd be interested in Alan Bickley's take on these. Ben L's Youtube videos are well worth watching, by the way:  I know some of us aren't keen on online demos on YouTube, but they're basically just videos, the best are of decent and helpful length, and they're free: I spend quite a lot of time there; admittedly, when I should be painting rather than watching someone else paint..

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Next weeks featured artists will be , R O Dunlop and Shelley Perkins . I hope you have a good weekend I will post the bonus artist thread shortly.
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Lucian Hodoboc

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I've adopted a couple of pieces of advice from Ben Lustenhouwer's videos. One that I particularly resonate with is this one: https://youtu.be/rBzGzmqNl1c?t=341 . I think he overdoes it with the loose brushwork in many of his works, but he's a gifted artist and I'm glad that he has been included a thread in this forum.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I've adopted a couple of pieces of advice from Ben Lustenhouwer's videos. One that I particularly resonate with is this one: https://youtu.be/rBzGzmqNl1c?t=341 . I think he overdoes it with the loose brushwork in many of his works, but he's a gifted artist and I'm glad that he has been included a thread in this forum.
Lucian Hodoboc on 29/10/2022 20:22:30 I've just looked at that section of one of his videos, and agree with you that it's so important not to fiddle away at detail in a portrait in the hope that this will increase your chances of achieving a likeness - it's very important to remember that: having worked on a few portraits lately, I understand this advice as I did not understand it before: all depends on overall impression, shape, planes, light on planes - it doesn't matter if your subject has a network of wrinkles around the eyes, it's entirely unnecessary to render all of them, and if you do it won't help at all to convey a likeness anyway.  
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