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Inspiration from Artists Wk 156 bonus artist : Dale Marsh .
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Welcome to take weekends bonus artist thread my choice of artists this weekend is :
Dale Marsh, is an Australian painter born in Brisbane in 1940.
At the age of nine years old he entered the Queensland Art Gallery on a scholarship where he was taught by prominent Queensland artist Vida Lahey.
He studied drawing and painting at the Brisbane Technical College, later studying and art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Dale paints mainly in oils and he often paints landscapes that portray the character and natural environment of Australia.
Bio vis Wikipedia.
I hope you enjoy my selection of his work.
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Certainly another skilful artist and I like his landscapes with the different light and colour of Australia. I did look up some more of his work yesterday and will try to select one today. Im not so sure about his inclusion of figures in most of his work. I would prefer some without but that’s just my opinion.
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The top one and third one down, and the last one - which has the feel of a watercolour though I don't think it is - win the prizes for me. Tessa's point about figures does rather chime with my own feelings: on the plus side, a figure gives an instant measure of scale; on the minus, they can tame and domesticate a painting. Given these are paintings of Australia, incidentally, I'm not sure I'd care to be having a nice sit down in the undergrowth, given the innumerable lethal creatures that dwell in it ... but that's not a relevant compositional point: it would be relevant if you got bitten.
On the whole, while very many artists include figures in their paintings, I'd often rather they didn't - I do wonder why that is, but... maybe it's because they CAN look as if they've been put there as a device, rather than because they were integral to the scene; or included by convention. Or maybe I'm just anti-social - who can tell?
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The male figure is particularly well drawn in photo 6, I’m not a great lover of subjects with figures generally either.
There are exceptions of course, David Curtis produces some of the best work I’ve seen, most of which have figures included.
An interesting mix of subjects posted by Paul, which don’t particularly inspire me if I’m honest, albeit as nearly always, I can appreciate the skill required…
Incidentally, I take Robert’s point about sitting among the shrubbery… everyone would be well aware that they have the most deadliest insects/animals in the world, so that painting doesn’t look right!
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by Alan Bickley
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Pleasant enough but doesn't grab me. Which is more or less what I thought looking at more of his work on-line. I did, however, like his handling of the mist (see below) and I have also included another of his takes on Water Lillies. Wonder where he got his inspiration from?
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by Tony Auffret
I do like some of his coastal scenes.
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First and last of Paul's selection (agree Robert that you wouldn't have a nice sit down in the Australian undergrowth), and two or three of them look a bit blurry to me, are they meant to? I thought at first the figures in Jenny's selection did look as if they could be integral to the scene, then had another look at the distance and wonder where on earth they've come from? Doesn't look to be anything other than open country for miles.
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I’m not sure what I make of his work, I look at some and think I like it then on a close look change my mind .
While I done mind people in paintings when it helps set the scene, I feel some of his paintings would be better without like others I question why but the figures in , is it to show scale ?
I’ve selected some of his tree paintings that I do like , as they are different from the ones we see here and his take on light is different due being in a different part of the world.
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