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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I used to buy comics - as they were invariably called, whether they were comic or simple story-telling - whenever I could get my hands on them; and it was principally the drawing that interested me; that's what started me drawing, trying (inadequately) to copy them, wondering about the techniques and materials they used: as a child, all I had was a 4B pencil and a tin of Reeves' watercolours - until come that fateful day!   I read a Look & Learn article on oil-painting; and wanted to try it - and my long-suffering parents indulged me, with Georgian oil paints, oil painting paper, Daler boards (remember them?), hog hair brushes .... then at school I met a very talented artist, sadly now dead, of my own age, who encouraged me and told me off for not cleaning my brushes properly..... the start of a 60 year journey, which still sustains me through dark moments: the drawings in these publications were my foundation, from Classics Illustrated to those pocket-sized magazines printed on here-today-gone-tomorrow paper -  Rob Roy, William Tell, Robin Hood, and those war stories (I even met the author of a number of them). 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Lew I’ve really enjoyed Looking  at this artist work, it does get a bit disheartening when there is little response but more people actually look than respond . I agree it’s a pity that we don’t get viewing figures as I’m sure a few threads would run longer if we had known at the time , I’ve noticed in the past two weeks or so that both the forum and gallery are a bit sluggish lots of people having time off after the school holidays. My choice of artist this week is Steven Scholes , I’ve cut and pasted a bio from Unicorn gallery as I’m have a bit of a problem writing at the moment. Some more nostalgia for a few of use as sone of the scene could easily be in most northern towns in the fifties.
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Lewis Cooper

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Yes Robert, your experience entirely matches my own.  It was illustrators just like  Zdenek that fired up my artistic imagination. Well Paul, you’ve done it again.  In my own personal lexicon I dub this kind of work as ‘slice of life’ art.  I depicts a lifestyle very familiar to me…trams, the occasional horse and cart, and less crowded roads.  The artist, a bit younger than me, is recalling his local history.  I like it very much.  Pure nostalgia of course, but there’s room for that in art.  His work is very similar to an artist who was featured a while back.  Later,  I’ll look some up.

Jenny Harris

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Love this artist’s nostalgic, beautifully painted scenes, especially those with a warm glow of light in the shop windows.

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Lewis Cooper

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A few I like... I particularly like the one above.  The background is almost monochrome.  In fact, save for the lit windows and some reflections on the pavement, the whole painting is more or less monochrome.  Very effective.

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Alan Bickley

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The Multiple point perspective in some of these examples is amazing, some of the best examples I’ve seen. I’m less keen on the colourful nocturnes with lit windows if I’m honest, but the last two of Lew’s posts are more to my taste - very accomplished work.

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Tony Auffret

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I was stuck by the diversity of styles and came across this example.  Very much in the style of John Atkinson Grimshaw.  Though I have to say, my favourite is the one Lew likes, the almost monochrome street scene with the lit up shop windows.  

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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They say a painting should tell a story, these do and it’s a story we are all familiar with can identify with and being a part of in some cases . I think nostalgia place a big part in our liking for painting , even if it’s something we aren’t particularly aware of , a good example being the comic and the drawings that Lew featured and of course his own work evokes an element of nostalgia. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some more to finish off this thread , I found some boat’s paintings but then I would. I said above about a painting telling a story, well the first one is like a phot memory for me, only difference is the bus was green, going to work in the early sixties as an apprentice engineer. Always seemed dark going and coming home , there wasn’t much light inside Fowlers engineering works , dull dark and very noisy.
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Lewis Cooper

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Double post.  Clodhopping figures.

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This chap has been an interesting artist Paul.  In part because I seldom draw buildings, but that doesn’t stop me admiring such work.  Like you, the first of these postings appeals very much.
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