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Michael Edwards

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Yes, Sandra, I'll pop them in the gallery. I've not been to any demos but have viewed several videos on Youtube - sadly they are all by Americans who don't really seem to have much ability in the technique, don't seem to employ any artistic endeavours to influence the result (they seem to rely on luck) and can't make a good video for toffee.  However acrylic pours are not a million miles from the acrylic ink abstracts where I employ water to influence flows etc so I'm hoping that experience will put me in good stead.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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In general - and I have 50 years' worth of work to look back on - I think I was a bit braver when I started out, got more careful and conservative, improved my technical skills, and then began to get a bit bolder again - but I'm still not where I want to be.  One of the things that has changed is my eyesight - I once used to do quite precise, careful drawings (every brick in a wall, for instance) but I can't see well enough to be so nit-picking now; and anyway, I don't have the patience that I had a decade or two ago.   What I regret is losing so much work - obviously, the sales were welcome, but some things (mostly drawings) just disappeared over a series of house moves.  Still, I can always pretend that my old stuff was just brilliant, having no means of actually looking at it again!
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Lewis Cooper

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For me there's the old problem...the picture I had in mind is always better than anything I'm capable of producing.  Time sometimes eases this...you've forgotten what you were after, and just look at it afresh. I have periodic culls just to create space, so most of my old work is the stuff I liked most anyway.  I tend to keep the newer stuff for a few years in case my opinion of it improves.  In the past I've thrown away stuff I wish I'd kept...these days I take photos before dumping.   I see this as the natural order of things, and anyway, for me the real pleasure is trying to make pictures...the 'doing' of it. So I guess I like some of my pictures more, and the old or new aspect doesn't really enter into it.
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Sandra Kennedy

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Some really interesting answers, thank-you to everyone who commented. Like Lewis I don't get the picture I had in mind (although your pictures are really terrific Lewis so hard to imagine how you would have got them better). I think this topic was born out of frustration, I feel that progress should be rather more linear but it's not working that way at present! Sorry about your lost drawings Robert with the house moves. I never want to move again!
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Jim Morris

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Just a personal view, but regarding the topic, I'm tending to think that comparison between old and new/current does't work or prove much because you're a different person/artist than you were back then. Age, maturity and personal preference all change our views. Checking your gallery for view numbers can also be  a real surprise in realising what other people prefer. Interesting. 
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