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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Merry Christmas to everyone I hope you all received one nice presents from Santa. This week it’s all about Christmas choose a Christmas painting of a sketch etc and post it with the  artists name if possible. I’m not given the artists name of this first one as I believe it’s obvious, but if you done know don’t worry , have a look at the bottom right it’s signed, I won’t tell anyone you looked . Enjoy your Christmas Day and keep well and safe . Who will be first to recognise who it painted by. 

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Tessa Gwynne

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Dixie I thought you were allowed a day or week off!! That’s one of my favourite paintings.  Happy Christmas to you and yours.  I’ll hopefully pick one later. x
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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No Tessa my contact said zero pay , hours 24, 7, 365  , no perks but it’s fun.

Alan Bickley

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And one of my favourite paintings also Paul… Here’s one I’ve just finished this morning… not a famous artist… yet!

Denise Cat

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Merry Christmas. I've picked The Wild North. Ivan Shishkin 1891. I'm a big fan of his work.

Alan Bickley

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Now this is a famous artist and illustrator, he needs no introduction!

Jenny Harris

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Happy Christmas!  I’ve chosen a colourful snow scene by one the artists we looked at much earlier in this thread, the Romanian artist Iosif Derecichei.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Excellent paintings chosen, Alan you famous with us all . Come on post one of your own as well it will be more fun thst way . 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Being famous is something of a trap for artists - it can set you in a groove from which you can't escape.   Take Banksy - an artist against whom I have nothing at all, and for whom I have precious little; as soon as he paints a picture, it gets nicked; not because he's a great painter - he's hardly really a painter at all - but because his work has caught the avaricious eye of those who set the nation's tastes (or who think they do).  A man of manufactured mystery - don't tell me no one knows who he is - whose work fetches ridiculous money.   That's not his fault, and he's parodied himself; I think his stuff is original, funny, and often makes a very good point.  It's the way those with cash-register brains have seized upon him, and thus undermined his work and message, that nauseates me.   I don't know how hard Alan tries to market his work, but with a good agent behind him and a prestigious gallery showing his work - of course he could be famous; but maybe he has more sense that to want to be.
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Martin xxShawxx

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To be a successful artist is a matter of taste, timing and fashion. How hard you want it. How long you are prepared to wait, in fact, it’s endless. You could be  successful  from sympathy or even apathy, which makes you endearing to others. Art is a freedom. A cliche at that, but also a political cliche. I’ve seen shit artists, brilliant artists, disgusting artists, balloon-headed, nausea creating, rich, aspiring artists, who believe they are Gods gift. Yes, I think Alan is a very good artist, so are a great many others, but it’s all up to the individual, that’s the beauty of it. Timothy Holmes’s rocks my boat on here. What is it to be great, anyway?,,,  not selling out? To be famous when you are dead? RICH? I’ve had two stories poached off me and made successful. Thing is, I never finished em properly, Robert. The thieves deserve them more for their tenacity up to the finish. I believe God deserted me a long time ago, knowing I will always be a servant of the people, but I have this drive, this fluidity of the free and creative meant for others to bounce from. Changed the subject, I know. One must be insane. There is an artist I once knew, poised for greatness, even had Elton buying his stuff. The critics dragged him down. John Hopkinson, heard of him? His drawings from the mind were cartoon-like. Brilliant!Dead and gone, and I so friggin’ liked him. Just rambling

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Jenny Harris

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This thread seems to have gone a bit adrift already!  A couple more snow scenes - these are by one of my favourite local artists - we’ve already looked at his work - Chris Forsey.

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