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Alan Bickley

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Mono cuts away all the distractions of colour! Perhaps… certainly makes you think harder about your tonal values as an artist! Proof, if we needed it, is that tone is more important than colour!

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Tessa Gwynne

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Of course, and so true. Makes you think again.
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Carol .

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An excellent choice of artist, Lewis. There isn't a favorite among all the posts, they are all to be admired. I think it was you, Alan, that said, quite some time ago that 'tone is more important than colour'
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Marjorie Firth

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Wonderful work Lewis. Moody and atmospheric, I can see what he and Hopper had in common. Deserved to be well known - I’d never heard of him.
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Lewis Cooper

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A few more of this artist's work. One I particularly like...the car headlamps providing the light, throwing the car itself into silhouette.  I did manage to find another of his actual paintings.  This is fine, but I still much prefer his mono work.  (There must be many more of his paintings out there.)

Tessa Gwynne

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Your selection is superb Lew. I’ve just browsed through this again and you’ve already chosen the ones I had thought of posting!  It occurs to me that while most of us would avoid or not even consider, drawing and painting in the dark, this is what he did, and created the contrasting light in various ways, car headlights, street lights etc..  he also created great movement in his work, and I particularly like the ladies with their umbrellas.
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Lewis Cooper

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I really admire his work Tessa.  If I tried to pick favorites they'd be the very first one I posted (A group of backlit ladies walking down a street), and the scene lit by a car's headlamps in the posting above.  In this case, picking favorites is a pointless exercise, they are all good.

Tessa Gwynne

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I agree Lew, it would be hard to find one that’s not impressive. I’m just surprised that he is not better known.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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His work is stunning, I’ve not seen an image yet that I don’t admire obviously some are outstanding in the what because of how he treats light light .  I would be so happy if I could get a half decent effect with pencils and ink etc let alone etching , love a tenth of his skill . Lew you have introduced us to one of the best artists we had featured on this thread .
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Agreed, Tessa - I have never produced this sort of print, although many, many years ago I worked with lino block printing, and (I know: it's not printing) scraperboard: I was much better at the former than the latter, and I wish I hadn't stopped; they can have similar though not of course identical effects to the approach of this artist.  I.e. the tones are everything - when I illustrated a book, I used ink, basically - striving for a similar look, but not achieving it - still, my illustrations WERE rather better than the text of the book, and I pray its author isn't looking in!   What I mean here is that black and white work - to summarize it crudely - can be so suggestive; we know this from seeing Rowland Hilder's and C F Tunnicliffe's work, and many others, but this artist was in danger of being lost - I'd never heard of him before, and I feel a richer man artistically for having encountered him now.   Now for a challenge to whomever would like to accept it: when I was a young man - yes indeed, the Neolithic beckons - there were artists in pen and ink I much admired: Fougasse; the cartoonist Giles; David Low; even German cartoonists known to me, though of course I've no desire to show the racist and otherwise contemptible stuff - still, some were reportage, with no vile overtones.  The best of their work - emphatically NOT the worst - deserves respect for its technical brilliance.  I have some, in mildewed books which it would be risky to scan; as a purely technical exercise, had you any examples available, it would be interesting to see some of it.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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E.g. - Reichspräsident Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg - it is a great drawing.... even if the old rogue may not bear up too well in international history: though for the record - I think he's been much maligned. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Now, here we have the snag with auto-removal, because it was removed; I have restored it but I do see how it might be offensive to some.  It shows the system is working - but it also shows the limitations of auto-exclusion.  I would argue that Von Hindenburg was not a racist and had been misunderstood, but that's not quite the point: I wasn't trying to rehabilitate the old rogue's reputation, but to show the quality of other approaches to illustration, tonal studies, portraiture etc.  I welcome the new safeguards, though!  This proves they're working, and will be of huge help to moderators.  
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