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Sylvia Evans

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Just delightful choices Lew , thank you.
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Jim Morris

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Most of these are strange to me Lew, although Winslow Homer I've admired for a long time. Some truly magnificent work. 
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Lewis Cooper

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When I found this artist - Louise Raynor - I was surprised she was from the Victorian era.  I associate Victorian watercolours, probably wrongly, with dull thin colours.  Not so with Louise.  She exhibited at the RA.  I like the fact that she fills her cityscapes with people. At first sight long ago, Kandi Thompson's art made me think this can't be watercolour, I had to check, but her dense vibrant colours are exactly that... A few more later today and then we're done.

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More wonderful work Lew. I do like the ‘Memories’ - what a brilliant idea and very subtly executed.
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“Venice” by Stan Miller - so beautiful!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Well Lew you have certainly put on a superb display of artists and their artworks this week , just had a quick count and you have featured about forty artists . What is really impressive and interesting is that I for one did not know the vast majority who you have featured and I now have a list of watercolour artists to look at in more detail. Hopefully you will post a few more yet , I just want to say that for me it’s certainly been the best week we have had on the thread, thank you for sharing your presentations with us and I hope you have had some pleasure sharing them , Thanks Lew. 
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Tony Auffret

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Lew, thank you.  You have shown, so ably, that there is much, much more to watercolour than the standard (if I may use that term) Rowland Hilder style English landscape.  A real set of eye openers.
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Jim Morris

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Love the Cityscapes, but Nigel Short's violin is my favourite for my wall. Art really has something for everyone if you seek it out. Wonderful work Lew. 

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Lewis Cooper

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Thank you Dixie and Tony.  I'm constantly amazed by what's being done with watercolour.  I made these pictures up about 10 years ago, these same artists will have much more work to look at, and I've no doubt there are many more to be discovered.  Many of the threads in this series have already produced astonishing artists that were unknown to me.   I'll post a few more this afternoon.
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This will be my last group of watercolours, and a few personal conclusions.  In the distant past I attempted graduated washes and the use of masking tape, without much success.  I didn't like masking tape at all, but I'm talking 30 years plus ago...maybe it's better now.  Here's a terrific example of a graduated wash... I admire a range of styles.  In the example below we have a superb realistic still life and an abstract.  Both great in my book. I'm always impressed when artists 'see' things differently.  Below, a 'real' source has been presented in the artists distinctive personal style.  Terrific. Pen and watercolour is a personal favourite.  Below, on the left, for my money, a wonderful example.  On the right, a subject painted against a black background...a very effective device...I've seen many examples in POL's galleries. I'm always gobsmacked by some artists ability to paint soft graduated skin tones.  The artist below often paints these very large scale...six foot or so.  Several artists featured in this thread do that.  Astonishing.  Maybe it's easier large scale???  Doubtful.  It's all down to skill. Four long format watercolours.  Should the musician's head be cropped?  No special need for that.  The artist's choice.  Fine by me. I've liked all the paintings featured here, or I wouldn't have shown them.  Obviously, I still prefer some over others.  I'm hugely impressed by Steve Hanks reality and technique.  He could paint anything put in front of him.  My own personal preferences stray to where some degree of imagination comes into play...as with Jeanne Vodden's fantasy pictures.  But I suppose Daniel Merriam's 'romantic surrealism' is where I'd really like to be... Wishful thinking doesn't get any paintings done.  In art, all of us have a wonderful interest.  Each one of us, whatever our personal likes and dislikes, at any moment can come across a painting that will blow our socks off.   Lucky us. That's all folks.

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Jenny Harris

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Thanks, Lewis, for a really interesting week of watercolour art.  Daniel Merriam’s ‘romantic surrealism’ is also my favourite by a long way.  I also very much like the Foxy Lady above by Frederick Graff.

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Jim Morris

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Frederick Graff's Foxy Lady really does it for me. 

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