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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 89 Bonus thread the featuring artist this week is: David Macbeth Sutherland 1883-1973, was a Scottish artist known mainly for his landscapes and portrait paintings and his long tenure as Director of Greys School in Aberdeen. He starts to study law but moved to Edinburgh to work as an apprentice in a Lithography business, he then left the post to attend the Royal Scottish Academy and the Edinburg College of Art. During WW11 he was appointed an official war artist recording Newfoundland lumberjacks  on Deeside . I hope you enjoy my selection of his artwork.
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Andrew Roles

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Lovely stuff Paul, particularly the portraits and figure studies, and I really like the pencil sketches . 

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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They are rather good sketches , I added then as I think it helps to see how the artist puts a picture together. I know Robert limes to see sketches by the artists but they are not always available unfortunately. The portraits are good but it’s the landscapes thst I really like, I’m not a huge fan of oils but I do love a good landscape  in oils when it’s done as well as this.  I don’t dislike oil paintings it more that as I don’t use them I tend to appreciate how watercolour paintings are done . 

Tessa Gwynne

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Another interesting choice Dixie. I prefer his portraits, especially the selfie. 

Jenny Harris

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I also like the two portraits shown above, especially the second one.  Not keen on his landscapes.

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Alan Bickley

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His landscapes do look a bit ‘overworked’ perhaps, but I rather like them. I also like his sketches, and particularly the self portrait… but find it unusual to be working in one’s own studio wearing a crisp white collared shirt with pin and tie! Not MY normal attire in the studio I must admit! I do like how he’s introduced the table with all his materials scattered around… good idea and something we don’t often see in a SP…

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Linda Wilson

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Love the portrait of the older man.  Well done everone for keeping this thread going, though I know I have been a bit remiss and busy elsewhere.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I like his drawings, on the whole (especially the last one shown), though he does fully populate some of them - one or two verge on the over-cooked.  The two portraits I like - the SP is of a young man, and shows such an array of bottles that it causes me to suspect he used too many mediums: I hope he cut down as he progressed....  The landscapes, though - they appear to be so tonally flat - he wasn't one of the "work with brilliant colours" school, was he....?  
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Here's one I prefer, though, it's still essentially a study in coloured greys.  Reading his potted biography, he was clearly a distinguished gentleman.