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Inspiration From Artists Wk176 Featuring Artist: Jim Musil and Norman Cornish

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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The last one posted and his latest painting is excellent, I find it really peaceful to look at and surprisingly I like the style . 
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Tony Auffret

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I think Alan is spot on with his comment - some of these do seem to have a paint by numbers feel to them.  Not all his pieces appeal to me, but there are some.  This one caught my eye.

Sylvia Evans

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So agree    That painting is rather brilliant

Norrette Moore

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By the way, if you use Bluesky - which I find a lot more pleasant than Twitter/X - Musil has posted one of his latest paintings there which I think will excite general approval: worth seeking out. 
Robert Jones, Napa on 14/07/2025 22:11:32
Thanks, Robert I'm following him now. I found his brush work for the clouds in the two boat houses picture, very interesting.  His techniques will be useful for my 3 hour art club sessions, should I turn to acrylics again.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Jenny - yes, that's the one.  I like it - probably because it's an English scene, and he's modified his palette.  I do suspect that the reason his normal palette comes across to us rather strongly is that he's US-based - or anyway, that's where he comes from, I don't know where he lives now.  There was an oil painter named Ted Kautzky who painted very acidic pictures of the US landscape, which is of course hugely variable from coast to coast - I found him a bit over the top, but others pointed out that the light, the topography, the strength of colour, are all very different from, say, Market Harborough (don't know why I've settled on Market Harborough particularly, but you'll understand whereof I speak, I'm sure).  

Jenny Harris

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I missed this earlier, but apparently the very first stage of a painting starts with a detailed sketch using alcohol markers.  There are quite a few demos of the way he works on his Facebook. This is the detailed drawing stage of the canoe painting we’ve already looked at.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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My choice of artist this week is Norman Cornish . 
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Lewis Cooper

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I think the art establishment at first called these artists 'Sunday painters', or naive painters.  But this man was much more than that.  I think he's a great artist, and believe he's now accepted as such.  He painted real life with understanding and warmth.  Although I grew up in London, these street scenes are pretty familiar to anyone from a working class family. He, and his kind, are national treasures.

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Jenny Harris

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I also really like his work, both style and subject - will have a further look.

Alan Bickley

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So much cultural heritage captured in each piece, tremendous work. I do love those miners figures with the pit head just in view!
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Marjorie Firth

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Some of his work and that of The Pitmen Painters is at Woodhorn Museum, the site of Woodhorn Colliery, near Ashington, the home of many of these working class painters ( and of course the footballers Bobby and Jackie Charlton and their uncle, Jackie Milburn “Wor Jackie”).  A contemporary of Cornish - Tom McGuinness is well worth a look - paintings and drawings. I have this print “ Miner and Child”

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Tessa Gwynne

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I love his work and have a book of his paintings which I must dig out. That’s a delightful image Marjorie, so tender. Have we not looked at Cornish before or am I imagining that? We’ve looked at so many in the last few years-hard to remember.

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