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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome this weeks thread one our special weeks featuring Still Life , I started with some paintings that I found on line , would be nice to see POL artists work. Please post some of your own or work from other artists.  I hope you all have a great Christmas and get lots  of art related presents , keep well and safe  but mostly enjoy your time with family. Terry Norris  TJ Murphy I thought it was a Victorian painting he was born 1973. Sarah Jones  Veronica Winters.
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Lewis Cooper

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Good ones Paul.  I've never been moved to make a still-life picture.  I think it stems from my art teacher in school days, he was always giving us still-life subjects to draw...jam-jars, balls of string... etc... etc..., no doubt good practice, but BORING...BORING.  The experience killed any interest I might have had in drawing still life. But by default, I have  to draw it sometimes.  Here's one... ...breathtaking, isn't it?  No?  Please yourself... But I do admire still-lives that others make.  Here's a few I like...

Jenny Harris

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Like Lewis, at school I found traditional still life (and figure drawing which I disliked just as much) really boring and have never been interested in painting it since, although I do admire some artists’ still lifes, especially those of Samuel Peploe, Cris Canning and Shirley Trevena - I selected some of their work for the Still Life week we had a while ago, but will look for more.  In the meantime, this is probably the nearest I’ve got to painting a still life.

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Russell Edwards

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I've always been and admirer of the Dutch still life masters, I like to delve into all that lovely detail!
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Marjorie Firth

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As you probably know I’m a fan of Still Life but of a particular kind. They have to attract me because of their simplicity or colour, the light or their “ wit”. For simplicity I like someone like Sarah Spackman, Dennis Spicer ( who used to post on the site) Lea Laboy on our site, some of the Impressionists, trompe l’oeil ( some of Lewis’s examples). Also the Scottish Colourists….the list can go on. My own are usually to do with light and shadow and often everyday objects. Some of mine that I like….

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Marjorie Firth

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Dennis Spicer, then Sir William Nicholson, then Lea Laboy. Lots of Sarah Spackman online.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some excellent examples of your own work Marjorie.

Alan Bickley

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I remember commenting on that Stilton/Danish Blue cheese when Marjorie originally posted it a while back - it’s so good and realistic. A nice set of paintings as well from her talented hand!
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Marjorie Firth

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Thank you both - blush…

Alan Bickley

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Not my preferred subject for painting, for no particular reason, because I enjoy drawing individual pieces such as animal skulls as an example. This is a still life that I set up in my studio a few years ago, which did appear in TA magazine as a stage demo…
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Marjorie Firth

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That’s complicated! A simpler one from me on the same subject.

Tessa Gwynne

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Marvellous work!  In my opinion you can’t beat Cezanne for classical still life. And for something more recent, I love the clutter of Adam Ralston’s work.
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