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Christine Rogan

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Wow Jenny. Another great artist you’ve found. Really like all his work shown above and found this one too that caught my eye. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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His technique varies, but generally - he establishes a wavery pencil drawing, then paints up to and over it: it gives him far more freedom than a "careful" drawing would: it's interesting to compare this technique with the other approach - both (and others) are valid, of course.  Do we know the average size of these paintings?  I'm imagining they're on quite a large scale. 

Jenny Harris

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What a great response to this one!  I loved his work as soon as I saw it.  Like most of the artists I’ve suggested for this thread, some of his artwork just popped up on my FB page - seems the more you take an interest a particular type of post on FB, more just keep appearing! Robert, to answer your question re size, not a lot of his work gives the size, but from those where I could find dimensions,  it seems to range from 18 x 18 cm for some of his drawings, to 56 x 76 cm for a larger watercolour.

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Gets better, doesn't it?  To see the pencil work alone, without added watercolour or anyway with very little, shows that technique at its most eloquent.  Makes you want to take a stab at it yourself ... to get that movement would be something else again: well, one can but try....

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Jenny Harris

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Last ones from me……

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Tessa Gwynne

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I love the one of boy and cat Jenny, but again, they are all wonderful. The combination of unique style and feeling is wonderful.

Denise Cat

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What a great artist Jenny and you can see he uses a limited palette. His creations are so very beautiful and unique, I have not come across him but he is a find, Jenny. Sensitively drawn and painted, full of emotion and interest. I love his work. A talent.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Colin Davidson 1968, is a Northern Irish visual artist li I g and working near Belfast his home town. He graduated from the University of Ulster in 1991 with a first class honours degree in design , and worked in the field of design print until 1999 when he started full time painting. He painted scenes of Belfast in his youth and since 2010 his work has been concerned with the human face, the resulting large scale head paintings  are recognised internationally.  I hope you enjoy my selection of his work, I’m really drawn to his sketches no pun intended , I find then quite inspiring. 

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That portrait of the Queen is horrendous   ,yes we all get wrinkles as we age and as I know , but this is very over the top. The next one down is equally horrid we have a Welsh artist called Peter Prendergast who paints very much like this and I don’t li his either.  The Queen painting is very much like one done by Rolf Harris.  She did not like that one.  The drawn portraits are excellent.   We have several members on POL who are equally as good.  
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Russell Edwards

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Alberto Mancini proving to be a difficult act to follow -  nice drawings but his paintings don't do much for me I'm afraid.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Did the Queen ever express an opinion on the Rolf Harris painting?  I doubt it: she rarely did.  As for this one - well, let's start with a measure of agreement: the landscape beneath it is not in any way appealing to me: and I think  I'll leave that there, because I don't want to be rude about someone's painting, particularly given the artist didn't ask for his work to be shown here. The portrait - I've certainly seen a lot worse; is it maybe a bit .... heavy?  I have a feeling there's just too much paint on it, and that it was a laborious struggle - that wouldn't be any surprise, hundreds of artists had a go at painting the Queen, few of them really succeeded.  Was it from life, or from a series of photographs taken over different periods - that might explain the somewhat knitted-together look; what might not be helping it, too, is Titanium White - IF that's what he used; lead white is kinder to skin tones, is more readily moulded, takes other colours better for a more natural look.   But I'm no portraitist - many good portraits have been painted with Titanium, and when Lucian Freud painted the Queen with his usual Cremnitz, it wasn't universally praised (one criticism was that it made her look as if she were chewing a wasp) but she offered no adverse criticism. It'll be interesting to see what others make of it.   The Ed Sheeran painting is good - the sketches accomplished.

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